Kubuntu as Canonical's neglected stepchild
Wataru Tenga
release. It was made specifically for us KDE fans, branded with
beautiful Kubuntu-specific artwork and themes, contained the best Qt-
based software, and dared to be different. In a world ruled by Ubuntu,
it’s given us KDE fans something to root for. Unfortunately, Kubuntu
later became known as Canonical’s third wheel, and each release seems
to steadily diminish in quality. What’s responsible for its current
status, and what should be done to improve it?"
Raymond Martin
Lack of interest from Canonical. There is nothing preventing them really from
doing better on the KDE front. They have money to work on it. The Qt licenses
changed in the past year to be both GPL and LGPL for the KDE base. Lots of
interaction is happening between Nokia (owners of Qt now ) and KDE developers
to push it forward onto smaller devices.
The only answer is to switch to a better supporting distro. Other distros with
less money behind them seem to being doing a much better job with KDE, as well
as supporting/providing other window managers.
Ubuntu is okay, but I am not impressed with this lack of support for anything
but GNOME. Ubuntu is overrated in my opinion. Kubuntu is(was?) okay, but
I really cannot agree that it was all that great compared to the KDE offerings
of other distros (it's artwork/themes actually looked rather slack to me).
Mandriva, SUSE, and others are definitely better.
There is a lot of hype surrounding Ubuntu and its ilk. And lots of people are
falling for this without any substantial benefits to justify it.
Raymond
Keith Wilkinson
installs almost flawlessly (much better in that regard than Fedora
12).
It also offers the option of installing non-OSS components like
Flash,
and MS fonts.