Comment 9 for bug 208253

Kubuntu 8.04 was not an LTS, and even if it was it wouldn't warrant special treatment for bugs such as this. You just get security releases and paid Canonical support available for longer with LTS releases.

If users don't feel they want to upgrade, then that's too bad. Another big problem is that we don't know which of the numerous changes since KDE4 development started fixed this bug. Upgrading to KDE4 fixes this bug, and if you don't want to upgrade there is nothing we can do.