I use kde with the default theme, but was quite happy with Gnome 2. Honestly most of my complaints aren't about gnome, gnome can do what it wants, they're about

I use kde with the default theme, but was quite happy with Gnome 2. Honestly most of my complaints aren't about gnome, gnome can do what it wants, they're about gtk apps (like Firefox) that are forced to adopt to terrible gnome conventions just because they use gtk. For example gnomes Terri terrible file picker.