Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Nov 2009 21:48 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
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2009-07-24
Unfortunately, it is precisely the 'few developers' that Kubuntu has that is its main problem.
There is no other way to explain this once you compare Kubuntu to vanilla KDE on 'vanilla' Debian (which Ubuntu is based on).
The Kubuntu devs are basically trying to take a Gnome-specific distro and make KDE work on it seamlessly, and that is simply very hard to do. This is why the KDE experience is generally reported to be better on DE-agnostic distros (nevermind the KDE-centric ones) like Debian, Arch, Gentoo, etc, because the devs working on KDE for those distros aren't having to fight with their own distro's Gnome-specific characteristics.
I wish the Kubuntu devs well, and hope they succeed, but they've chosen a much harder path to take since Ubuntu is effectively a hostile environment for any major non-Gnome DE.