KDE developers are hacking away at 4, which is now in /trunk, because 3.5 was moved to a branch. There is a lot of talk about simplification, speed and eye-candy. KDE4 will hopefully blow Windows Vista out of the water (at least in my book, so that I don’t feel tempted at all to use Vista). Maybe perhaps KDE4 will hold its own against Mac OS X Leopard, which would mean that when all those MacIntel ports of applications will run just as well on Linux, and I won’t feel the temptation to switch Mac either.
Nine things KDE should learn from Mac OS X