"Dolphin is a nice update"...
Well, it's emerging but I still don't think it's a patch on 3.5's Konqueror and the new Konqueror included with KDE 4.* is just Dolphin with some extras turned on but fails to impress.
Otherwise, KDE 4.3 is a pretty nice and NOW stable desktop. It's fast and light on resources. Compositing features are now part of the desktop manager. New capabilities are coming with each dot release. If you looked at KDE 4.0/1 and thought that was the end of KDE, think again.
And why is this Gnome still so ugly for goodness sake! How do you expect new users to take it up when it looks so horrible. Sorry guys but that's my opinion, I don't want to start a flame war and I'm not trolling.