> I guess it is not reasonable to expect KDE to stop 'being KDE', but I am a little disappointed to see that they don't really seem to have shifted their emphas

> I guess it is not reasonable to expect KDE to stop 'being KDE', but I am a little disappointed to see that they don't really seem to have shifted their emphasis anymore in the "lightweight" direction. What are you talking about? They are modularizing KDElibs into things that can be run outside of KDE. This is a huge benefit for anyone who wants to use KDE tools outside of KDE, which we need these days now that GTK+ dropping the ball by focusing on GNOME. LXDE is merging with RazorQt instead of using GTK+3 for this reason: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1013 http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1013