The quick list:

Loves:

1. The overall look. It’s hot. Gnome is too home-y.
2. The lack of an INSANELY long & overstuffed KDE Menu
3. KDE Menu that listened to Fitt’s Law!
4. Desktop Icons with mouse-over actions
5. Widgets on the NorthEast Display Corner Mouseover

Not lovin’:

1. No Keyboard Shortcuts: KDE4 had none that Gnome AUTOMAGICALLY got:
   1. Volume up/down/mute (F3-5)
   2. Display Brightness up/down (F1-2)
   3. CD Eject (F13)
2. While I’m at it, where do I even mute the sound AT ALL?!?
3. Reverting to the old KDE3 panel style for settings. Back to old-school ick!
4. Desktop CLUTTERED with ridiculously large Icons. (And how do I change their size?)

I’m in need of help on fixing these should-be-minor issues, otherwise it’s back to Gnome for me. Any takers out there?

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Update: It seems Thom Holwerda agrees with me:

The panel. Ah, the panel. How you mock me by being totally unusable and inflexible. You cannot change its size (at least not in a logical place), entries in the taskbar are too large and look plain weird (esp. the text part), it has visual remnants (a one pixel fully opaque line from the background sits between the glassy rim and the taskbar itself), there is not one setting you can alter about it, and most of all: it has the world’s worst application menu ever (based on OpenSUSE’s Kickoff). I hate it so badly, it made me curl up in fetal position and cry in the corner of my living room (and I had guests, so you can imagine the confusion). I mean, I thought Vista’s start menu was unusable, but trust me, that one is usability bliss compared to this abomination.