This thread has started to spin wheels... There is no more discussion in it sadly. Just my view other view etc.

To pragmatists - great that you can get the best of both worlds by using best of open and proprietary

To idealists(myself included) - Would be nice if we would get the benefit of the doubt and get our wishes then we could actually compete on an even playing field - as it is we can only follow whatever is locked down

I wish for a day when open vs proprietary would not be an issue. It would simply co-exist and play fair. Until that happens though open is at a disadvantage due to needing to reverse engineer APIs, drivers etc. Or when open comes up with anything original get's instantly spewed upon by people as being lame/not like $whatever other thing/etc... then copied by some proprietary vendor and marketed as the next big thing.

If you want better cooperation between QT and GTK+ it's easy. Make them both use the same bookmarks format and even file. GTK+ uses ~/.gtk-bookmarks with a simple: file:///some/path/to/someplace no clue what QT uses though.

Having used both and others as well I must say I still like GTK as a user the most.
But I would like to have them better interconnected. It's possible to theme each other supposedly though I only manage one way always gtk apps as qt.

Freedesktop should specify all these things so that irrelevant of the toolkit it would be the same data in the end.

Anyway rant over