...there sure isn't much interest in the perl bindings to the Qt libs.

Just to add, there are perl bindings for Qt version 3, which had a different license than version 4 (e.g. version 3 had only a commercial license for Windows and version 4 has a restricted free license for Windows). Sounds like version 4 would be more desirable, but from what I've read it would require a complete rewrite to come up with the perl bindings, and no one's come up with the tuits yet (update: there is a RubyQt for version 4). The author of Perl/Qt also came up with a PerlKDE, but that also requires old libraries, and hasn't been updated for a while.