Comment 6 for bug 182786

Kubuntu will NOT be LTS anyway, with or without KDE 3 or KDE 4. Why? Canonical says so.

Why not have KDE 3? Because the majority of KDE developers are right now developing the new and exciting technologies of KDE 4! Will there be KDE developers working on KDE 3 in three years time with updates and bug fixes? I don't think so. And the Kubuntu team is not big enough to maintain a KDE 3 and 4 version at the same time.

Now, because the KDE developers have switched to KDE 4, what should the Kubuntu (which is, of course a KDE Linux distro) developers do? When in Rome, do as the Romans do, switch to KDE 4. Which is what we have planned and heavily under development.

OK, KDE 4 may not be production ready (personally I love it), but one does have the option of using KDE 3 in Hardy/Gutsy (upgrading from Gutsy will keep KDE 3), or you can use KDE 4 (the dream and future) and help us make the future releases of it roK, by submitting all bugs you find making KDE 4.x a better and more solid DE - and thus, helping out Kubuntu tremendously.

All this will in turn, help make future releases of Kubuntu better too and the next LTS (whenever it will be) be stable, powerful and just great. What we are doing is, I think, a great favour to the KDE team.