QT may be an important reason, yes, but I don't think it would change much with lets say GTK. Nobody wants to deal with the madness you find in KDE. I think mos

QT may be an important reason, yes, but I don't think it would change much with lets say GTK. Nobody wants to deal with the madness you find in KDE. I think most people like a configurable desktop but with sane and solid defaults. That's why Gnome is preferred. And I don't think it's gonna change anytime soon. KDE has a very opinionated userbase, which is not bad, but it also has its downsides. I'd like to change a couple things in my Gnome desktop that I can't but I rather have it this way than deal with KDE.