I'm kind of in the same boat. I used to be an ardent lover of KDE 3 and KDE 3 MOD. Ever since KDE 4 released my interest diminished and once gnome 3/gnome shell

I'm kind of in the same boat. I used to be an ardent lover of KDE 3 and KDE 3 MOD. Ever since KDE 4 released my interest diminished and once gnome 3/gnome shell became stable at version ~3.2 I switched to it. It was a love and hate relationship for a while but within a few years gnome had become so much nicer to use (from a defaults, "just works" kind of view) than kde that I stopped giving it any chances to pull me back. I guess this is the best time to try KDE again! I really like how desktop centric it is with the more denser application design. And it seems to look half-decent now, instead of whatever they had back in the Oxygen days. I hope GTK/Gnome integration has gotten better...