The GNOME and KDE communities seem to have two completely opposing philosophies. I'd argue the best way to achieve unification would be to make GNOME 4 a Qt ba

The GNOME and KDE communities seem to have two completely opposing philosophies. I'd argue the best way to achieve unification would be to make GNOME 4 a Qt based DE. Qt is just superior and GTK+ only exists because of ancient Qt licensing issues that are no longer relevant. That said, this will never happen because, being C++, it'd alienate a lot of GNOME developers. During the transition you'd also set back GNOME for years.