New grafpup release candidate (for testing) looks good to me . . . in fact I am writing from it now (using Opera 8.5)
Very polished: Scribus DTP, cinepaint, Inkscape, new KDE (extra download) 75 meg and worth every meg of Friskiness . . .
Wanna test it? Go on you know you do . . .
http://www.grafpup.com/
I tried the KDE plug in (just download this to mnt/home) and reboot
There you go Puppy in KDE and when you get fed up (hopefully Nathan will implement a full XML menu) press ctrl + alt + backspace and type xwin icewm to use the default ice window manager