I've migrated my laptop (my main workstation, these days) and I've done a complete migration to the KDE 4.1 desktop. Things are not perfect, (on the old KDE 3.5 I'd say things were 99% according to my tastes), but I'm trying to accomodate and find replacements. I didn't like the KDE 4.1 launcher at first and I've even tested Launcelot for a while, but now I'm back to the default menu and I'm starting to like it (on 3.5 I was using Tasty Menu).

I'm using Scultptura style with the Scultura-Stone color scheme and Sculptura window decoration. I needed to add another plasmoid from kde-look, the panel spacer, to make the systray smaller and separate the buttons on the right side to those on the left.

Things that I'm missing:

• no "window" list menu widget, which I've tried to replace with a plasmoid. I might as well remove it, because it doesn't list all the windows from all desktops, just the current desktop.
• I don't like the double spacing of the clock & date widget, I wish that it was a single line. I saw that there's a plasmoid on kde-look.org, I might try that.
• I don't like the black background in the systray (at the right top)
• There's no working "app shortcuts buttons" plasmoid, although I may try to simulate that with the Quick Access plasmoid.

Things that I'm happy with:

• Shiny new software!
• KDE 4.1 is actually not that horrible, once I tweak it (although Kde 3.5 had the same problem, closest to my "visual" tastes comes Gnome, but I like Kde applications better).
• NetworkManager seems to deal a bit better with my wireless connection (when my girlfriend opens her Macbook I get terrible disconnects from the access point)

I thought I'd add some words about the development environment that I feel most comfortable with.

First, I use AGX for most of my plone development. It's useful as a quick skeleton generator, but also as a way to structure the content. To generate the UML files I use Poseidon Community Edition. Up until recently it was buggy, and I still consider it to be, but I learned what to do so I won't trigger the bugs (quick tip: don't ever rename tagged values, delete it and recreate it. If you rename a tgv, it will rename that tgv in the entire model). I've tried ArgoUML and, despite having better support for AGX, it felt buggy. And I don't like the way you have to hunt down the tgvs in that long list when adding one.

I use JEdit as text editor. It's not the greatest python editor, but it's a good all-arounder. I like its xml support, it's great when editing page templates. It's fast, has a ton of plugins and a nice "hypersearch" bar that you can place at the top and use it to quickly search in the curent document. Lately I've started using SPE for a wxpython based project, and I'm also trying Eclipse with pydev.

When creating a plone skin, the Firefox Dom Inspector is invaluable.

I use Ubuntu Dapper as the main OS. Although I have dual boot, 99% of the time I spend it in Linux. It has been my main OS since Breezy Badger came out, and I like it a lot. It runs Java software really fast and Gnome is terific DE. I was a KDE (with WindowsMaker as window manager) fan until my first contact with Ubuntu. It's nice! I bind alt + 1, 2 and so on to the each desktop and so I can switch really fast to the application I'm interested in. I put Jedit on desktop 1, the gnome terminal on desktop 2 and firefox on desktop 3. I can run Internet Explorer 6 and Photoshop 7, to cover even the last Windows needs.

And last, I listen to Radio Paradise with Rhythmbox. When I feel like exploring, I use StreamTuner or head over to Radio Grassy Hill, BorderRadio or Deviant Audio. Either that, or listen to my extensive collection of Grateful Dead mp3 recordings.