Plasma/5.2 Errata

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Known issues in the Plasma 5.2 release.

Bugs

Neither of these will be shipped in the stable tarballs.

  • Copying or moving can create two running jobs in Jobs applet with KDE Frameworks 5.6 - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342276 - fixed with kio 5.7
  • Battery applet shows seconds in remaining time with KDE Frameworks 5.6 - fixed with kdeclarative 5.7
  • Very big wallpaper images can appear not as sharp - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338506
  • Undo'ing applet remove may put it into slightly different position than it was before, it is fixed and after testing this may end up in 5.2.1

Missing features

  • No holidays or calendar events displayed in the Plasma calendar - Awaiting KDE PIM libraries to port to KF5/Plasma5.
  • KWin does not provide window tabs
  • Tooltips on window decoration buttons
  • Oxygen window decoration
  • Global shortcuts do not work to control activity switching, you can use Meta+Q to toggle activity manager but activity cycle shortcuts Meta+Tab do not work yet. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342186
  • Aurorae window decoration themes do not support changing button size

Configuration changes