Will the network manager plasmoid be stable/ready for Ubuntu 9.10?

I still need to use KDE3 kvpnc to connect to a Cisco VPN. It'll be nice when the nm plasmoid can take on this role.

I appreciate all the work you put into Kubuntu.

Regardless of all the positives, one recurring experience I've had with Kubuntu over the past two years is "broken" programs upon upgrading. The NetworkManager plasmoid is a good example - it was defective upon arrival. Another flawed program is KPackageKit - I'm never sure it will successfully upgrade packages because it reports errors every time I run it. Another problem I've had is that "Help > Report Bugs" does nothing, and I've been informed this is a Kubuntu issue. I've also had problems in the past with Amarok, Kaffeine, and other programs which are not Kubuntu's responsibility. Unfortunately, I sometimes felt that something that worked (if clunkily) was unnecessarily replaced with something that didn't work.

My question is: Can the users of Kubuntu expect a commitment from you that Kubuntu will not ship with packages/programs that are broken/severely flawed/very far from complete upon arrival?

why Kubuntu not has a real Artwork Team (community and none)? Compare this with Ubuntu artwork, Kubuntu feels like an academic project vs. Ubuntu’s polished feel.

Why Kubuntu not has a brand in the desktop?

Why Kubuntu not has a wallpaper?
Sure, you can customize it to your liking, but the out-of-the-box experience is essential. I repeat, Kubuntu feels like an academic project vs. Ubuntu’s polished feel.

Why Kubuntu not has a new installing system as Ubuntu? http://www.tuxjournal.net/?p=9406

Why in Kubuntu more packages (i.e.: inkscape, gimp, ...) have unnecessary Gnome dependencies (ie: policykit-gnome, etc..) ?

What do you feel would need to happen to eventually have Koffice / a KDE browser replace their Gnome counterparts on Kubuntu? What do you feel the chances of this are?

Do you feel KDE on Windows has brought / will bring more developers to free software?

Most Linux users want to see the uptake of Linux increase.
To help new users, a centralised control centre is needed, I feel.
SuSe has one with YaST and Mandriva has a beautiful one in their MCC.

Will Kubuntu ever have anything as good as the aforementioned GUI Admin Tools, maybe by porting YaST or MCC to Kubuntu??

Thanks

How do you think the FOSS community can help foster new users development as OS users by breaking down the barriers of terminology, concepts etc that we already accustom to take for granted?

If there was one thing you could change in Kubuntu (new feature, bugfix, artwork etc.), what would that be?

I got two questions:

1) Did you ever try, just for the sake of testing, if a kubuntu machine keeps running and for how long, after you sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda?

2) If you were to marry a woman, and you discovered she loved coding gtk, what would you do about?

@notme: Please split your questions, in accordance with the "one question per post" rule.

Kubuntiac wrote:What do you feel would need to happen to eventually have Koffice / a KDE browser replace their Gnome counterparts on Kubuntu? What do you feel the chances of this are?

I think Konqueror is the default in Kubuntu these days anyways, no? I swear it is. It definitely was back in the 3.5.x days and I'm pretty sure it was for Jaunty...although actually, thinking about it, I've run 4.3 on all my installs of Jaunty so maybe those packages did it differently. All I know is that I'm a Konqueror partisan; I'm writing this from Konqueror right now, and I'm not even in KDE at the moment (LXDE on an ancient Core Solo laptop).

Oh, but I should ask a question. So, where would you like Kubuntu to get to by the time the next LTS rolls around?