I just found this link on the Gnome website, which I find very funny: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/wrapper-friendly-api-guidelines/wrapper_friendly_api.html

Basically, if you want your code in Gnome to be easy to wrap, you should write C++. Maybe that is why we never had this issue in KDE.

Some more reflections about writing a wrapper for Qt/KDE or Gnome/Gtk:

• Every language has some libraries to access C code. So wrapping C code for another language is easy. Wrapping C++ is more complicated. That's why there were so many Gnome wrappers and so few KDE wrappers
• While producing a wrapper is quite easy for C, maintaining it is very burdensome, because every maintainer must add manually all the wrapping code. As gnome and gtk evolves, this turns out to be quite painful. This why many wrapper only do gtk and/or wrap old versions of Gtk or Gnome.
• While producing a wrapper for C++ is initially harder, once you have done it, you can automate most of the task. That's why KDE wrappers are quite up to date, as comparisons to Gnome's. The paper also points out why it is difficult to automate the wrapping of Gtk/Gnome widgets: because the intent of the programmer is not expressed in the language. Is this member public or protected ? Macros break everything but Macro are part of the gnome type system.
• Since KDE is written in a higher language than Gnome, there is less need to program in another easier to use language.