Im a KDE user since i started using GNU/Linux for the first time. I sometimes switch or try using distros with Gnome mostly for curiosity and comparison, which is why im writing this, my first post here, comment. I find the way styles and window decorations are applied under KDE to be discouraging for new and average users who like to customize their desktops to their liking, not to mention making use of the wide variety in choices that kde-look.org offers. To get to the point, a user has to download the package and then have to configure, make and compile. That right there is a turn off, and reason enough to make a user switch to, say, Gnome. The reason being that once in gnome-look.org, all a user needs to do for either a style or window decoration is just download the package and either drag it to the theme dialog or click on the install button whithin that dialog. Granted this aspect maybe not a big deal to some, including myself in some way since i'm more than comfortable with the command line, but when i put myself in a new user's mentality having to open a terminal means admitting defeat for the user interaface way of things.
And yes, i am aware of styles and window decorations that provide precompiled packages for different distros, but, even whithing diferent versions of the same distro, those packages are not always going to be compatible. I'm also aware of distributions that package a lot of these styles and window decorations, but they can only package so much. And as for the dekorator project, is a good alternative to applying window decorations, and though is better than nothing, they can only simulate so many.
I guess the short version of this comment would be why, would or shouldn't styles and window decorations in KDE be as easy to apply as the way is done in Gnome?. I can just imagine how much more use that style and window decoration section of kde-look.org would get, not to mention how much more user friendly that would make KDE in general, considering how much it is right now.
