i'm an ex-gnomist myself!

felt so concerned and proud and everything about that pure-GNU desktop project...used it for a few years, upgrading, breaking, reinstalling, etc... everything on a regular basis... but after a few long years... let's face it: as for a *desktop usage* (i mean to be used by a lambda-user, windows-used, no-computer-geek people) it's way less convenient and unified than kde!

i tested on a from-scratch debian... just asking for evolution brings you about 30 packages and libs and headers and stuff...

on the other hand, the knoppix all-kde interface is so neaty and eye-candyesque that any "desktop user" will go "wow!" when seeing it
(and kmail and the rest of the suite seem to do very much of evolution's job anyway!)

so... will there be a party to celebrate the MB earned in that deal of getting rid of the gnome? how much was it exactly? will there be room for a few xmms skinz now?