mac 57: Why do you like 3.5 better?Just curious. Please don't destroy my loom
It is just a personal taste thing, and it is probably something you can change. KDE has always been VERY configurable. I simply don't like the dominance of really dark colors. Vista is like this too. KDE 3.x's dominant blue'ish tones were/are very appealing to me personally.
I am sure you can change 4.0 to be Blue again, but the default that I see in the screen caps doesn't appeal to me. As silly as it seems, one of the things I have never liked about Gnome is also color related: the dominance of earth tones. I just don't like the look.
Also, I HEAR that KDE 4.0 is mostly an "under the hood" release - huge changes internally, but only basic stuff externally (visible). All of the Linux mags I read say that we need to wait for a 4.1 or a 4.2 to start seeing the benefit of all the tinkering that has gone on "under the hood".
Finally however, I worry that KDE is simply getting too big and too bloated. 3.5.7 still moves pretty well on my 3.0 GHz machines, but as they add more and more, they seem to be tending towards the Microsoft model of "bigger is better". This is distressing.
Even good 'ol XFCE is getting fatter and slower. At the moment, my favorite desktop environment for Linux is the combination of XFCE4 with Rox Filer for the desktop. I manually edit the startup files to eliminate the XFCE4 desktop and lots of other stuff and put Rox in its place. The net result is lightening fast, even on slower machines. Rox is a darn capable desktop and file manager.