Kubuntu a dist in crisis?

[O. Sinclair]

Clay Weber wrote:
> 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.
> 

You are right and I am wrong, my bad assumption. However - if I connect 
to a wpa or whatever encrypted network I have to tell/know the 
encryption used. Which normally is not a problem for me but for "the 
what is encryption, just tell me the password"-user certainly it is.