Well, I am still on Ubuntu 10.10. I plan on using LTS releases only, but even then the support isn't there. Case and point:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-application/+bug/569273
So, my gnome-power-manager looks like this:
Size: 443168 kB
Rss: 411364 kB
Pss: 411364 kB
Shared_Clean: 0 kB
Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
Private_Clean: 72 kB
Private_Dirty: 411292 kB
Referenced: 309920 kB
Swap: 31704 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
Seems pretty excessive.
This is ridiculous. I would think that the gnome-power-manager is a fairly important piece of the OS here. Why in 18 months hasn't this been fixed in Ubuntu? OSS support sucks. Sure, make the argument that paid software isn't much better, but why would OSS hold itself to that shitty bar? When is Ubuntu going to be a robust complete product? Never. That's how OSS works. Constantly changing and never stable. Even the stable stuff isn't a safe bet because if you find a bug, odds are they've already moved on to a newer, better version with different bugs for you to discover. Nobody fixes bugs on old releases. Not even Ubuntu, even when it's in the support window.
