Version: (using KDE 4.4.0) OS: Linux Installed from: openSUSE RPMs I have seen this problem with the whole series of KDE SC4.x : -When a plasmoid freezes, the whole workspace becomes frozen or quite unresponsive. I've had this problem with yawp or with a stocks widget (stockoid?) that would freeze in case of failing net connection. Then the whole desktop would become hardly usable. - When a plasmoid crashes, the whole plasma workspace crashes. I have this problem with SC4.4.0 and SC4.4.1 each time I login in the OpenDesktop widget: the widget crashes and so does plasma. Plasma should be more robust, in a way that a bug in a plasmoid cannot spoil the other plasmoids or the whole desktop
this is a design trade-o decision that has been discussed extensively elsewhere.
sounds similar to this report. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222223 "design decision"? Funny, if it were not sad. By any other name, still a bug to be fixed.