I hope this becomes a loose series of various things that I would like to change for KDE 4.0. The code may appear in kdenonbeta/kdeutil where I keep utility classes for the KDE namespace.

Seth Nickell wrote a blog entry about the relation between Gnome and KDE. The short summary is that Gnome and KDE are just two flavours of the free desktop(.org) that are technically too different to be merged, but work toward a common higher goal and should thus share as much components and standards as possible.

Ok, with the official presentation of Qt 4 the pandora's box called KDE 4.0 is open, and people start discussing possible changes. So here is my personal contribution of wishes (that I would be willing to work on, of course, at least if I am not the only one):

The lack of comfort when joining mailing lists is annoying. If anybody wants to make me a little bit less grumpy, try the following:
- design a XML Scheme / file format to describe a mailing list (and especially how to join and leave it)