"The KDE Community proudly presents the second Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current codebase. Simultaneously the KOffice developers have released their third Alpha release, marking significant improvements in this innovative office suite. Both KDE and KOffice have benefited from the Google Summer of Code, as most resulting code has now been merged."
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That's the only shot in this thread I like the look of. The style suits me. I dislike styles with no division between the title bar, menu bar and toolbar. This style has them without looking cluttered.
I also like the icons (what the shot was actually intended to show: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Crystal+Project?content=60475 ) and I have to wonder again why Everaldo wasn't included in the process for creating KDE4's new icons.
So luckily KDE is configurable. Unfortunately, while the icons are nice, it really is the style that draws me to it, and that remains only a mockup 
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Just judging from pictures, KDE 4 really looks promising. "Vista" users will feel comfortable. :-)
No, honestly. KDE 4 continues a good design line, which is important because people usually judge software values from image impressions - and this leads their decisions.
The image http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/estilo/image219.png reminds me a bit of the XFCE 4 panel. And http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/estilo/rect2955.png shows something similar to the Mac OS X panel... Intended?
When i48n improves quality (e. g. overall language selection, no exceptions for error message texts), KDE 4 based distros will improve Linux's usage share in Germany.
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some mockups about where the style is going (before everyone complains about the current look):
http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2007/09/ok-its-time-to-show-somthi...
http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/estilo/