In the interests of being fair to both desktop environments, I have decided to switch to KDE 3.3 on my home desktop. Still using Gnome 2.8 on my laptop though.

Well, KDE 3.3 is more of the same - very customizable, but somehow not as clean looking as Gnome. It may just take some time to get it looking and working the way I like. Also, though KDE/Qt applications were far ahead of Gnome/GTK, that is no longer true. Firefox, Thunderbird and Gaim are killer apps for Gnome. Yes, I know that you can run apps based on any toolkit in both environments, but I like seeing all my apps look and feel alike.