Recently from a rss feed, i got to know about Antico, a light QT4 window manager, a bit like LXDE is for GTK.

This window manager, even on an embrionary stage, is a real promise, which can be even considered as a very important fresh air to both KDE4 and QT4 development.

http://antico.wordpress.com/
http://www.qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Antico?content=93778

Well, i must confess, after KDE1, i never got a KDE enthusiast anymore (i'm much more a Gnome/Fluxbox user), not only KDE becoming too heavy and taking so much disk space, specially when the default themes looks also too heavy, fancy, etc.

Now KDE4 appeared, looking even more scarying as looked before. My idea would be if people could contribute with default minimalist themes, for KDE newbie users not being so scared from them. Not only KDE4 configurations without delaying and performance-lacking effects, as well themes without transparencies, gradients, emboss, rounded edges, etc.

(Gnome users like me are welcome on voting +1 on this idea, because it's more as a criticizing, which i really doubt can be took seriously, since it's known normal KDE users not enjoying their computers performance for work at all... ;-) )

Since Kubuntu is becoming based on KDE4.X, would be interesting some other ubuntu-based subdistro named Skubuntu, based on SimpleKDE (that KDE 3.X fork). Please comment if voting -1.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplekde

I confess i only were a KDE user up to version 1.1, and now, after appearing KDE 4.1, and seeing the promises about 4.2 and next versions (and the way QT developers want to lead its development, which is completelly disastrous in my humble oppinion), it seems a fork project like SimpleKDE being very important to be supported, and being part of the official Ubuntu repository. Please comment if voting -1.

In my oppinion, Kubuntu should use the last good version of KDE always existed, 1.0 - it were clean, fast, stable, without fancynesses, etc.

Being mainly a Gnome-Ubuntu user since before Ubuntu 4.10 (and maybe forever), and after testing the alpha 6 of Kubuntu 8.10 live cd, i really can understand how many people (like me) considered KDE 4.1 a complete disaster, and Gnome having more and more users as the time goes.

As well i readed news and blogs of some KDE4 developers a bit disapointed of the feedback their long time work were considered.

My idea is about Gnome being now more clear a window manager made for users, and KDE for experimental GUI researchers.

And interesting how the taste of former and actual KDE users used to have different tastes about it: there are people (like me) loves simplicity, minimalism, usability and productivity; there are people likes demoscene-like effects on a GUI; there are people loves seeing Vista/MacOS-X copycats on Linux; and there are people likes to try innovations about usability.

This can be good when considering QT and KDE being splitted into different window managers QT-based, which can work sinergically - and maybe this can be considered the main future of KDE, just a base for GUI experimentation research.

Would be interesting if KDE 4.1 could be easily configurable to have the awesome look and feel from KDE 1.1, as simple as done in less than 5 minutes.

I really believe this can be considered a very interesting challenge for both KDE developers and users, really!

This would bring back the good old times of when KDE were truly usable.

Well, i normally used to try Linux distros .iso files into qemu first (qemu -cdrom distro.iso)

I'm not Kubuntu or KDE fan, but i got 'curious' about how far can look a Canonical supported distro using KDE4.1 ... (the 8.10 alpha 6)

(note: i didn't enjoy any 'improvement' from KDE 4.1 - and as well i didn't find any usability improvements there)

And it really happened what i were predicting: Kubuntu boot crashed into Qemu! (it were the very first time i were seeing a Canonical supported distro with this problem)

And so, i don't know how far is possible having the new version of Kubuntu booting so fine on Qemu as Ubuntu does (well, i really doubt it, but i think any effort is welcome, at least for all those people believe KDE can have some future... ).