I am a KDE lover but I think KDE 4 is coming a little late. It is probably impossible to have had KDE 4 included in Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 7.10 but KDE is probably dying out.
I am not saying that KDE 4 will not be so great that people will just fall in love with it, but competition in window manager is very fierce and once people get into the habit of one, it is hard to switch to another.
KDE on Fedora 8 is a disappointment. I don't know how they make KDE look so old but I couldn't tell if it was a themed version of XFCE or KDE. Is Fedora team somehow abandoning KDE? I know there are color blind people (like me), but you don't have to make it almost monochromatic. That kind of even extends to Fedora 8 Gnome even though less. I think contrast is good with a desktop manager.
On Kubuntu, the desktop is pretty but crashes are overwhelming. I don't know why Kopete is still in existence when they could have spend the time on Konqueror which has the promise to beat Firefox at simplicity and its other features (like typing wp to search Wikipedia and holding down ctrl to navigate with the keyboard). And dolphin doesn't support search as you type...
I don't know if any market survey has been done but as both of these two distributions popularize, KDE's market share will definitely plunge.
And I'm judging by appearance for my reasons.
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KDE is far from dieing. Its fans eagerly away the KDE4 series, which promises to bring even more innovation to the Linux desktop. Its own innovations, and the general stream of new Linux users, will certainly bring many more users.
How about this -- maybe Gnome is dieing, as they've got no plans for any desktop series after their Gnome 2.x series? Gnome bores, but I don't think that is true either, but very possibly more so than this KDE-is-dieing rubbish.
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