[zeugma]

Herding cats would probably be easier.

I'm not entirely sure I want a 'unified desktop'. I like the fact that KDE and Gnome push each other along.

[N3WBI3]

This is true, competition within OSS is a very good thing and the progress KDE has made over the past few years as the ui war between them and GNOME has heated up has made it my default desktop on systems that have a little more under the hood. I still go with XFCE on most systems and on the few bare bones systems I have one cant go wrong with FVWM (No, not FVWM2 ;)

Still I just dont see a unified release schedule happening it would be kind of neat but unless someone like shuttle worth wants to make it worth their wild I just don’t see Gnome / KDE getting together and saying yes we will release every six months on the first of the month. What happens if something get pushed for a few weeks?