“KDE recently announced support for GNOME pixmap widget themes.
This will allow KDE users to take advantage of the wide variety of
GTK themes. Does this portend a new level of co-operation between
the two desktop factions, and what are the eventual effects of this
development?”
“Although KDE has had a head-start on the GNOME desktop for some
time, GNOME was the first to really incorporate the idea of many
different themes. Through QT, KDE only had support to change the
look from a Motif to a Windows 95 style, while GTK developed theme
engines and pixmap themes.”
“Eventually, theme creaters will use the format which allows the
greatest number of users to load their theme. If KDE continues
to have excellent GTK support and GTK continues to have no KDE
support, most themers will go with GTK. While this is disastrous in
the commercial world, it actually isn’t much of an issue in an open
sourced world.”