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Qt is absolutely open source. It’s dual licensed as either LGPL or some commercial license.
Qt since its 5->6 transition has become very restrictive in its non-commercially licensed terms. A legal team must have worked hard and long to stretch this as LGPL, meaning that GPL licensing needs more attention to detail.
There is practically no support and no way to report a bug unless you are a paying customer, is what I kept.
My main issue is those two GTK and QT, are pushing linux to become an MSw and Mac alternatives respectively. Both ugly and anti-unix
@2xsaiko @Eldritch
Open source doesn't mean they have to accept bug reports. A project is still open source if you just provide appropriately licensed source tarballs of version releases on your website and nothing else. However, yeah they certainly have been trying to screw over non-commercial users, especially on Windows with their stupid installer, but thanks to KDE they have to keep Qt free software unless they want the last free software release to have to be relicensed as BSD.
How? If anything I'd say GTK is trying to become unusable to anything but Gnome, and Qt is doing some weird mobile shit with Qt Quick. While Qt Widgets, which has been like this for a long time, is pretty much a clone of Win32 Controls (which is a good thing, Win32 Controls are well designed) and the one that's like Mac is GNUstep (which I'm also really fond of).
All of these are still only UI toolkits and application frameworks though. They can't push Linux to become alternatives for complete OSes. That's up to application and desktop environment developers. And right now I don't see anything like that happening.
Qt is the base, what I meant is the KDE-plasma appears to push for the Mac-ation of linux while Gnome is pushing for the Microsoftization (aesthetics functionality wise) .. it may be the reverse I don't use either 4 of them.
wm with least possible overhead possible is my minimalist tendency for a graphic enviornment.
@2xsaiko
Again, I don't see that happening at all. I'm not even sure what that is supposed to mean exactly.
Do you want me to list software assuming you either run gnome or plasma?
Articles presenting the choice in linux as being those 2 desktops alone?
And all of it with direct code linking systemd utilities as there is no alternative or use of more common functions.
@2xsaiko
I don't see how that's relevant to what you've said before. You don't need Gnome or Plasma to use systemd libraries, and plus, application developers have the right to write software against whatever API they want, don't they? Especially if it's the ones from their own project. And trust me, nobody goes out of their way to write software that doesn't work on other desktops.
As for articles, of course articles by the Gnome or KDE project contributors are going to talk about those projects, and everyone else can write about whatever desktops they want. The reason is probably rather that they are the most popular desktops and most complete so new users are likely to want to start with them. And I doubt any serious articles aren't at least going to mention MATE, Cinnamon or Budgie.