I don't see how that's possible unless Apple went patent-squatting on the desktop widget engine idea. Or maybe Apple will just sue the socks off of the KDE project. This is why Apple is putting so much effort into making sure that OS X does not run (easily) on plain Intel boxes. Sure, there are many reasons to buy a Mac but the OS is definitely the biggie. If they give that away, then anyone on the planet can implement it and Mac sales go down the tube. The simple, elegant OS X GUI is Apple's trump card. Not going to happen and literally everyone at Apple has said as much. Perhaps KDE will convince Apple to make the GUI Free Software. Most of my geek friends and co-workers are in the same boat, though some are considering Powerbooks for the occasional on-the-road work. For example, I use KDE and don't see that changing anytime soon because KDE is, for me, a much more powerful UI environment than OS X. This needs to be qualified a little better because the a large number (most likely the majority) of "UNIX-people" are still happily using a non-Apple Unix. Most UNIX-people use Apple because it still is UNIX but with a better GUI. However, since this is KDE's own effort to reproduce Dashboard from scratch (Dashboard isn't open source even if many of its components are), Apple has no reason or incentive to contribute any of their work on Dashboard to KDE. Safari is descendant of Konqueror and contribute (perhaps inefficiently) their patches back to KDE.
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