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This is great and all, but I really don't see any reason to reinvent the wheel besides anal-retentiveness about licenses and Not Invented Here. KDE's libs (and the Qt they're using) are LGPL.

KDE license requirements (a partial list)

LGPL version 2.1 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.LIB or later
LGPL version 2.1, or version 3 or later versions approved by the membership of KDE e.V.
BSD license as listed below.
Ensure that the BSD license does not contain the so called 'advertisement clause'.

Qt license for free software is LGPL or GPL 3.0.

Qt is available under three different licensing options designed to accommodate the needs of our various users.

Qt licensed under our commercial license agreement is appropriate for development of proprietary/commercial software where you do not want to share any source code with third parties or otherwise cannot comply with the terms of the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or GNU GPL version 3.0.

Qt licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 is appropriate for the development of Qt applications provided you can comply with the terms and conditions of the GNU LGPL version 2.1.

Qt licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.0 is appropriate for the development of Qt applications where you wish to use such applications in combination with software subject to the terms of the GNU GPL version 3.0 or where you are otherwise willing to comply with the terms of the GNU GPL version 3.0.

Documentation for free software based on Qt is FDL.

The argument that there isn't already another desktop based on Qt is obviated by the existence of the Razor desktop, which could really use the extra development help. Why start from scratch when you already have this?

http://razor-qt.org/

This reeks of Not Invented Here syndrome.

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BMO

http://razor-qt.org/

Or maybe somebody will create a new desktop based on the QT libraries?

They did, it's called Razor-Qt. It's still in heavy development last I looked but they have packages available for several of the major distros out there.

WindowsQT exists, in a way...

I would love KDE if it would just stick to being a window manager. But everything related to that semantic desktop nonsense is perpetually buggy and knotify refuses to live with anything less than 100% of the CPU. These problems come and go with different releases, but they never entirely go away.

I have used KDE for many years on many computers, but I finally had to give up on it this year. Like so many open source projects, the bloat drove me away.

Why not look @ Razor-qt? It is an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. Looks like it's ideal for KDE users who think that KDE has grown too big and unwieldy. Some of the more recent Linux distros seem to include it.

Why not try out Razor-qt in that case?

Now we have MATE from GNOME v2 as a form of dissatisfaction of v3.
We already had Trinity forked from KDE v3.5.
Then there's Razor-Qt as "something almost completely new".
And the pletora of "alternative" desktops we all love: XFCE, LXDE, etc.etc.
Is it actually a problem of fragmentation, or is it that some projects after a few years (and some amounts of donated money) just go into technology decline?
I personally tend towards the second option.

It looks very promising. Simple, neat, clean-looking. There was discussion on /. a few days ago.
http://razor-qt.org/screenshots/