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> rather than open up some of their coveted, proprietary codebase. (Winforms)

What makes you think that open sourcing WinForms would be any good? It's probably tied to Windows to the gills.

If anything, they should be doing something else, they should create or even better, support an existing UI toolkit and promote that as their cross platform UI.

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While we haven't open sourced WinForms, there is a Mono version of Windows Forms. We've talked with the Mono guys about it and the general consensus was that the WinForms API shape doesn't make it very easy for cross-platform.

Is there any plan, even a low priority one, for picking up maintenance for something like Gtk# or Xwt or Eto.Forms? Or for extending UWP or Xamarin.Forms to Linux?

I agree, QT or GTK# would be a good start :)

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