I agree with you there. I've stuck with the Gnome flavor of Ubuntu, despite my preference for KDE because Kubuntu feels like Ubuntu with KDE duct-taped on top.

I agree with you there. I've stuck with the Gnome flavor of Ubuntu, despite my preference for KDE because Kubuntu feels like Ubuntu with KDE duct-taped on top. It seems to be missing quite a bit of the functionality and polish of the Gnome flavor, which is really quite unfortunate.