Currently, I use KShutdown for time-delayed shutdown of my machine. After the first logon after the shutdown, the panel was missing and it took long time (20 seconds) until the splash screen with the 100% progressbar disappeared. I hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace+Backspace and logged on again. Then everything was fine again. => A forced shutdown (I assume KShutdown does not care about Plasma) seems to affect the Plasma configuration. Is there a softer way to have the system do a time-delayed shutdown?
Can't confirm/reproduce in: Distribution: KDE neon Developer Edition - Stable Branches Plasma: 5.11.3 Frameworks: 5.41.0 Qt: 5.9.2 Kernel 4.10.0-40-generic Type: 64-bit
I use now latest Plasma 5.11.3 and cannot reproduce either. Closing the bug.