Goodbye wicd

I had lots of problems with Kubuntu 9.04 initially, but most of them went away when I did a clean install. What didn't go away were the networkmanager problems. Finally I learned that there was a plasma applet to control networkmanager--the systray applet was garbage. That being said, I'm not sure why I still went to wicd. I think I had problems connecting to a wireless network at work, so I tried wicd and it worked. Later on though, I realized there was a problem with wicd--my network connection at home was super flaky after that. Amazingly enough, I didn't really look into this problem for months. Last week I learned what the problem was. It appears that the latest wicd has the fix, but its not in the Ubuntu repositories, plus the wireless network at work that caused me to go to wicd is no longer available, so I've gone back to the plasma applet. I guess I also want to give the kde front end another shot because last time it was so inferior to gnome.