Sometime Today, Manish Jethani assembled some asciibets to say:
No mention of KDE here. KDE was started well before GNOME and it was those guys who wanted to created a nice GUI for *nix. And KDE
and then came Xfce, also before Gnome. Xfce came because KDE was non-free. Xfce has seven developers. Xfce is light, good looking, usable, and has on helluva samba client.