Plasma/5.4 Errata

From KDE Community Wiki

Known issues in the Plasma 5.4 release.

Beta

  • Plasma Media Center is in tech preview and misses features compared to Plasma Media Center 1

Missing features

  • No holidays or calendar events displayed in the Plasma calendar - Needs porting to PIM's KF5 libraries
  • KWin does not provide window tabs
  • Tooltips on window decoration buttons
  • KUrlRequester freezes UI when its dialog is opened for the second time Bug 351516
  • Desktop can lock up with vertical panel Bug 351479

Configuration changes

Environment variables and shutdown scripts are now sourced from ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env and ~/.config/plasma-workspace/shutdown, respectively. Existing scripts from Plasma 4 should be moved there.