That's interesting, but if you're trying to make a DE that attracts users who are used to Windows, or serve as a Windows replacement for corporate/government em

That's interesting, but if you're trying to make a DE that attracts users who are used to Windows, or serve as a Windows replacement for corporate/government employees, it won't be helpful. Neither is GNOME, in my opinion. KDE is easily the closest thing in FOSS-land to the Windows UI, and it's always baffled me why RedHat didn't support it instead, given their corporate focus. Some people argue that Gnome (3+) is better here because it doesn't lend itself to customization very well, but its entire UI is so radically different from Windows that I don't see how this argument holds water. Sure, KDE is ridiculously configurable, and that can be a big problem for IT support, but for non-admin users, it shouldn't be difficult to set an option to lock it down and only give users a very limited subset of the config options. KDE might not have that now, but RH could have easily developed that with a tiny fraction of the resources they've poured into Gnome development.