What is the best way to design an interface and make sure it is what your customers want? You could always follow the Apple or Microsoft method and just force feed it to consumers, but why not just ask consumers what they want? KDE is doing just that and has started KDE Brainstorm, a forum [...]

At this point in the operating system market it is all about simplicity. People are realizing that when an OS such as Windows Vista is complicated (sorry but Windows 7 is too complicated as well) they lose time and only get frustrated. KDE is simple and just needs that media attention to bring it into customers hands.