[lmm]

KDE is very modular and configurable - often more so than these alternatives. I'm a technical user but that doesn't mean I don't believe in using libraries to combine related functionality (would I write my own web server? Then why write my own file dialogue?), or having shared services that run in the background until needed (would I embed a database in every application? No, I run postgres as a dæmon, and applications that want a database can talk to it. So why have every program write its own tray notifications?).