> I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on > trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or vice-versa). I've > been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state > Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months ago).
Maybe not in line with the OP, but I had the same issue last month with using kde3 and needing to switch. I tried kde4, but my video card is garbage and I didn't want to tinker to find the reason X was so slow.... I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster now! ~daid
