Kubuntu a dist in crisis?

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday 27 October 2009 10:06:45 am O. Sinclair wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> A really ugly issue with Kubuntu/Kde is the Network Manager. At least
> >> with the latest iso's that I've tried.
> >
> > This is probably the most critical bug in KDE 4 at the moment. I think
> > it is fixed in Trunk and patched in Karmic.
> 
> Karmic uses the NM-applet. I am yet to figure out if this is
> networkmanager-kde or not, it is a bit cryptical. It works but is very
> basic in such as that it does not recognize the type of encryption on
> wireless, as I understand it (can not test as I dont have) 3G mobile
> does not work etc.
>

karmic uses plasma-widget-networkmanagement, not the gnome nm-applet. 
I am using it right now to connect to my  password-protected, wpa2-
encrypted wireless connection. Which is a significant improvement. But it still 
won't connect for me if the essid is hidden.

Clay