I agree, I think building GUI toolkit first is a better idea than building a new DE before you have a better foundation. Not sure what's their rush with DE then

I agree, I think building GUI toolkit first is a better idea than building a new DE before you have a better foundation. Not sure what's their rush with DE then. They can improve KDE instead, until Rust based GUI toolkit is ready. Cross platform here is not easy, if you want that toolkit not to be ugly and have some kind of native look and feel.