eh? (Score 1)

Emacs (IMHO) or even vi (Again IMHO) are more useful productivity tools than kwrite for me, so no gain there, I don't require a file manager as bash suffices me quite well, gimp/xv will do what kuickshow can. The things that are missing if we want to make Linux mainstream instead of just for "geeks" like myself are proper office apps such as StarOffice et al. Last time I checked these didn't integrate as seamlessly as they should with either Gnome or KDE so there has been no net gain as yet, but I do agree things are getting there ... Now as soon as those RPM's are done we can see how stable Gnome is now since last time I tried it was completely unusable :(