Recently there have been some releases of several Kubuntu/Ubuntu competing
distributions. Yesterday I installed OpenSuSE 11.2 and Mandriva 2010, KDE
versions of each. I do this to keep up with what others are doing as neither
is as flexible or complete as Canonical's offerings. What this did was drive
me back to Kubuntu quickly and be thankful for my choice.

Neither distribution has deep repositories. There are several applications
that I use that I could not install at all. However a couple of applications
ran better in Mandriva and OpenSuSE than in Kubuntu. Inkscape on my computer
does not run well from the Canonical repositories. It is extremely slow to
load (several minutes). It loads in both Mandriva and OpenSuSE quickly.
Which got me to wondering if there is something wrong with Canonical's
version. I get the same results in Ubuntu as Kubuntu so the desktop isn't at
fault. The other applications that do not work for me in 9.10 are Choqok and
Gwibber. Gwibber won't load in KDE, but it loads in GNOME and Choqok crashes
my computer in both. Initially on the fresh installation both worked, but
after updates they stopped working properly.

I use Inkscape for vector graphics and Choqok and Gwibber are microblogging
applications that support both Identi.ca and Twitter and multiple accounts.

If you use Inkscape, does it load quickly in (K)Ubuntu?
If you use Choqok does it work at all in Karmic?
If you use Gwibber does it work in Kubuntu 9.10?