Heck, that would be friggin' amazing if people really wanted to do that :) I've been working full time and then some for near a month and a half now, and I'm certainly not getting paid for it yet... Email address in the profile is my paypal account :)

Yep, that's on the list.

This should do what you want - with the caveat that I haven't thought about multiple tiers, but I can't imagine that being that hard to add.

It's currently written so there's a systemwide pool of block devices that are used for cache, and all cached data is spread around them, regardless of where it came from. It wouldn't take much work at all to change that though, if there was something that'd benefit.

Hey, at least someone noticed :)

That version was pretty raw. The current one is a lot farther along than that, but it's still got a ways to go - I'm hoping to have it ready for inclusion in a few months, if I can keep working on it full time. Anyone want to fund me? :D

There certainly was early on, as GNOME was essentially started by Richard Stallman because of the Qt Licence. All that's old history now, but the beginnings were some of the worse developer flamewars. As they matured, and as Qt got GPL'd, things got better. To be honest, it might have been better if GNOME never was started - it was certainly started for the wrong reasons, and KDE's always been about a year ahead. Since Qt got GPL'd, there hasn't been a licensing reason. I'd bet that would have happened even if GNOME hadn't existed. This isn't to take away from the good GTK+ apps (Gimp, Gnumeric, Evolution) but KDE does have a better technical foundation. *shrug* it'll work itself out in the end, I imagine. Certainly flaming over it now is counterproductive.