“Trolltech developer Jens Bache-Wiig is working on a new style
engine for Qt that can leverage the user’s default GTK+ theme. This
will make it possible for Qt applications to optionally share the
GNOME look and feel when they are running in the GNOME desktop
environment.“Qt has long had custom platform-specific styles that use native
system theming APIs to provide a higher level of visual consistency
on Windows and Mac OS X, but the toolkit has always drawn its own
widgets on the Linux platform. The result is that mixing KDE and
GNOME applications often results in an aesthetically confusing
experience…”