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See https://community.kde.org/KDE/High-dpi_issues. In fairness, most (in fact, the overwhelming majority) of elements within KDE are resolution independent (hell, KDE has been using SVG icons since well before the KDE4 days), and basically every element can be changed and tweaked as desired, it's just that it takes a shit ton of annoying manual tweaking.

You're right though, it Isn't There Yet (tm). But it is in fact a focus of much of the development; this is generally on the minds of KDE devs, and is being worked towards for Plasma Next, as well as for specific applications; for example, the Yakuake developer is changing the theming engine specifically with resolution-independence and high-DPI screens in mind. So upcoming versions of KDE will be, at very least, closer to supporting high DPI and resolution independence, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if a version or two into Frameworks 5 we get a nice centralized control for scaling the UI.

Brace yourselves, KDE 5 is coming!

No: http://vizzzion.org/blog/2011/06/there-is-no-kde5/

Um, there won't be a "KDE 5". Ever.
See http://vizzzion.org/blog/2011/06/there-is-no-kde5/ for details.

So far only KDE Frameworks 5.0 have been announced. There are no plans for KDE Plasma Workspaces 5.0 as of today. At least KPW 4.x (which KWin is part of) will always also run on X.org. Wayland will only be optional.

There is no KDE5 and there will never be: http://vizzzion.org/blog/2011/06/there-is-no-kde5/
With Qt 5 approaching in 2012 and provided the world doesn't end that year, we'll see KDE Frameworks 5.0 relatively soon. According to current rough estimates posted on mailing lists likely the winter (January) release 2013 will make the advent of KDE Frameworks 5.0. So far I didn't read of any plans to shift away from KDE's usual 6 months release cycle and Summer 2012 should be too early.

That said, I'm not aware of any plans to dump Plasma Workspaces or KDE Applications to 5.0 as well. They don't guaranty any ABI stability and can stay with 4.x version numbers until they make an actual big transition instead of just adopting a newer Qt.

While we disagree and that's not a problem, it would be nice if you didn't spread FUD. Sebastian Kuegler (KDE developer) posted about it in his blog. Plus, NVIDIA itself mentioned increased performance in Plasma and KDE4 in general in the release notes of the first or second (IIRC) 180.xx beta driver.

But you know what? Expose is also obvious, and no one did it until Apple...

Oh really

http://vizzzion.org/images/kde-4.0-post-rc1/kwin-expose.jpg

And you can't search for the window in OS X's Exposé, you must manually look at all the windows to search for the one you are looking for...

On Linux you just type the name and it search for you... now that is innovative to me.

This has already been fixed: http://vizzzion.org/?blogentry=806

That video is not XGL. It is quite impressive and it can give you an idea of what XGL could look like, it is not XGL but is Luminocity and it is taken from http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xshots. Read "How Luminocity Relates to Other Stuff" to get more info on Luminocity. Read the interview with KDE's Zack Rusin: "Beauty and Magic for KDE, with Zack Rusin". Download the demo video of Zack's XGL hacks: http://vizzzion.org/stuff/xgl_wanking.avi 16MB. If you want to read more about XGL then read aseigo's blog entry or Zack's blog.

Zack even did a demo of 3d and animation stuff in kde, i dont think u can make any of this stuff on vista or even on macos:
here it is