plasmashell currently provides most of what the users consider their desktop, a plasmashell crash leaves the user with blank screen and little or no way to recover it. Sadly, crashing plasmashell is easier than it should, for example: https://bugs.debian.org/839710 Reproducible: Always Expected Results: plasmashell should be resilient to crashing plasmoids.
If you have a specific crash we'll fix it. A bug report saying an application should not crash is not a useful report.
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #1) > If you have a specific crash we'll fix it. > A bug report saying an application should not crash is not a useful report. There is specific crash in the Debian bug report: - Add the comic plasmoid - Install the phdcomics in the comic plasmoid - Go back in the comic history till you hit http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=188 This causes a segfault in plasmashell, probably caused in plasma_applet_comic.so The problem here is that while it might be straight forward to fix the plasma_applet to avoid the crash, the underlying issue is that the plasma_applet_comic is running in the plasmashell process, and as such it's impossible to avoid a crashing applet to crash plasmashell. I don't expect this issue to be solved easily, maybe only considered for the design of plasma 6. But I wasn't expect the issue to be closed as invalid, when it's clearly reproducible.
(In reply to Maximiliano Curia from comment #2) > - Go back in the comic history till you hit > http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=188 Typo, it's actually: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1889