Bug 424495

Summary:	Plasmashell can be killed with xkill (or keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Esc)
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Thiago Sueto <herzenschein>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Thiago Sueto 2020-07-21 03:27:23 UTC

I know of bug report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81040 , but that one was for kdesktop.

I also don't know to which product/component I should report this.

It might be a good idea for the xkill keyboard shortcut to display a dialog message saying something along the lines of "You're attempting to kill plasmashell. Are you sure of this?" whenever the desktop is clicked after Ctrl+Alt+Esc.

An use-case for this would be when an application misbehaves (memory leak for instance and/or OOM) and the user wants to kill a window with the shortcut and accidentally clicks on the desktop.

Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2020-07-21 14:00:13 UTC

it's a useful feature when plasma is frozen.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-03-19 20:04:43 UTC

I dunno, what's the point? Plasma will restart, so it's not a huge deal if you accidentally kill it. If you're messing around with xkill in the first place, you're already in a killin' mood and are aware of the consequences. :)