A few weeks ago, Jack Wallen published a comparison of recent GNOME and KDE releases in which he claims that the desktop flame wars in GNU/Linux were about to reignite, and that KDE would emerge as the loser. It was not the most technically accurate of articles, and the claim of renewed desktop wars was news to me; in the mail forums for Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu, the uproar over the changes in KDE 4 is over, except for a few die-hards who are sounding increasingly crankish.