Hi, Well, as I mentioned briefly, I did "take the plunge." Here are my observations so far: -- KMail - Enhancements to mailing list handling -- good - Styled text composition -- good - Quick Search bar -- nice There are some glitches and shortcomings: The HTML formatting toolbar and the command to show and hide it get out of sync. In-line spell-checking is not available when composing styled email. There is a problem with saving a style mail draft and then reopening it to continue editing. -- KNode - Quick Search bar -- nice -- KDE - Window-Specific Settings -- This is a vast generalization of the old "Save Window Settings" command in the "Advanced" sub-menu of the window manager menu. I'm still figuring this out. It's clearly powerful, but also somewhat perplexing. - Idiosyncracies. Most of my panel functionality was really wacky at first. Eventually I just turned each applet (in my case, Pager, Taskbar and Tray) off and back on again and now they seem to be OK. The desktop grid problem has been noted already but even after the manual update to the appropriate configuration file, there's a problem. Some (but not all) of the icons on my desktop are migrating north. Each login moves them up a notch. The same thing happens each time I hide and re-show the panel. I finally just turned of automatic grid alignment--It's not worth the frustration! - Konsole Some settings reverted to their default. The "Bell" setting reverted to "System Bell." In fact, Notification appears reverts to System Bell whenever it's restarted. I had a similar problem in (KDE 3.2.3) with the history setting reverting to 1000 (from my own setting of 5000). I fixed the history problem by quitting Konsole and editing its configuration file by hand. After that the change "took." Maybe I'll have to try that with the Bell configuration. I know this is a pretty minimal "review," but my use of Linux / KDE is very stylized--Lots of Web, email (KMail), Usenet (KNode), shell (Konsole) and the rest is non-KDE applications (including Mozilla for Web browsing). Randall Schulz