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Gnome is probably more popular. My believe is that KDE is much more superior, at least on the surface. KDE is highly skinable, I'd say Gnome is too. There are thousands of various themes available and this one would be lost between them. Windows is skinable as well, and you have hundreds and thousands of themes for it as well.

So you can do this as a hobby, mostly for a portfolio.

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Or sell it as a theme and make money off it.

Can't remember the last time I payed for a theme. Especially since they look great on a screenshot but often turn out irritating in use.

If making money with linux (on the customer side) would be that easy there would be more usable and good looking software.

But asking money for end user software is something you really don't do on linux so there's no really well designed software.

I partially agree. Developers do the UX/UI design and it's very bad most of the time.

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