"The K Desktop Environment community came out earlier this year
with their brand new KDE 4.0 release that marked significant
advancements to this open-source desktop environment compared to
its KDE 3.5.x code-base. Meanwhile, the GNOME community has been
living in a 2.0 cycle for quite some time with no signs of a major
overhaul, but their six-month release cycles just continue to
deliver new refinements and minor improvements. The plans for GNOME
3.0 just put this release out when there is significant API/ABI
breakage to GNOME 2.0 / GTK+ or a major rewrite. Well, in addition
to announcing Stormy Peters joining GNOME, at GUADEC 2008 they have
just announced plans for GNOME 3.0...!"
