wicd vs network manager on karmik

I have installed wicd by a simple 

$ sudo apt-get install wicd 

it removed network-manager and network-manager-gnome 

what do you get ? a better wireless manager , seems that it connects to the network before the gui 

gets started so from the console i can upgrade or dist-upgrade 

and it works from any DE: gnome/lxde/kde ... 

For the moment i will stick to it