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I am constantly amazed at KDE's progress. This is due largely to the awesome Konqueror browser/file manager/swiss army knife. It's hard to believe that a few KDE developers have managed to best both Eazel's file manager and Mozilla's web browser. Not only that, but this is just one component of a large project that, among many other things, also encompasses a complete IDE (KDevelop) and a cohesive office suite (KOffice.) If you ask me, the KDE project has done a great service to Linux/Unix on the desktop. In fact, if you ask me, KDE offers a far more complete working environment than Windows, BeOS or Mac out of the box. Then there's the fact that QT Embedded brings KHTML to small devices such as the IPaq, and KHTML is small enough and clean enough that it can be ported to something as obscure as AtheOS is such a short time frame. It speaks volumes that Kurt would choose KHTML over Mozilla's Gecko. These developers bring so much to computing, and make it fun and accessible to a potentially vast market. Cool. (And no, I'm not a KDE troll. (Do they show up on this site yet?) I use Gimp, videolan, jpilot and xmms daily and Star/OpenOffice for large documents. Proof that using one environment doesn't stop you from using apps that belong to another.)