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Here is the announcement:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2011/08/important-announcement-coming-today-at.html

I personally think this is a little too much, too fast, premature, whatever you want to label it.
We just went through the Unity nightmare and at the same time Gnome 3 joined the bandwagon prompting Linus to call for a fork of Gnome to get a "sane interface back" in the DE world, and now they want to introduce KDE 5?!

Why not get KDE 4 super stable and super functional first, then worry about the bells and whistles?

They do "promise" not to shake things up, but I have this bad feeling in my gut that this may not be a smart move at this stage. It seems what we need now at this stage of the game is a DE that takes the strengths of Gnome 2 and KDE 4 and marry them together, we are running out of sane options on the DE front.

Anyway, lets see how this plays out and what they actually plan to bring to the table.
 
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It may seem a little premature to announce KDE 5 so early in it's development cycle, but surely this will make it easier for all to participate in shaping it's future? Development of KDE 4 IS ongoing, so they can still work on stabilty/functionality.

As for a sane DE, there will always be 'traditional' options like XFCE, for those who do not like the direction Gnome 3/Unity has taken.

I personally LIKE Unity(!) but agree that the transition to a new interface should & could be handled in better way. As you concluded, lets wait & see....I for one can't wait ;)
 
Running Ubuntu 11.04 without Unity, prefer the classic interface, thank God for sane options like XFCE
 
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