@emiliosic,
You're exactly right about all this, except for your confusion about KDE and Qt.
The "standard" browser for KDE desktop users is Konqueror, still based on KHTML. There are plenty of other WebKit-based browsers which run on QT. And you can download "kwebkitpart" to replace most of KHTML's layout with WebKit.....
But the Consortium Vote, approving the project to create a WebKit browser directly on Qt, was only taken a few weeks ago, and the project is barely started. Creating a "KApplication", rather than a "QtApplication" adds lots of classes (widgets, interfaces to other code, etc.) which Qt doesn't yet provide... And so, the work to be done is quite large.
But yes, in the long term, there's going to be a web browser which uses Qt directly, for most things, and it won't be hard to switch from one "Desktop Environment" (or netbook environment, or smartphone environment) to another.
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