^well,I am somewhat accustomed to kdemod.what I felt as a Gnome user is,
in kde some "extra" options given are really useful.
other than that,kde's extra options are totally confusing and useless.remember I am using Linux for the past 6 yrs or so on full time.

Still kde is not exactly gr8 compared to Gnome.
although kdemod is modular somewhat and is pretty much stable IMHO
QT apps are better coded and maintained imo.also,once the big kdelibs are installed,u wont have to download much to install all "k-" apps
anyways,wait for a week or so,gnome-2.22 will hit the repositories.

even gtk libs are needed by archlinux kde install