KDE Plasma 5.17.1 To Fix Wallpaper Slideshow From Crashing Your Lock Screen

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma 5.17.1 To Fix Wallpaper Slideshow From Crashing Your Lock Screen

It was another busy month in KDE space as we approach the end of October...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Wallpaper-Random-Crash

[R41N3R]

Nice to see that after all these years the hamburger menu (or should I say cashew) is gone. We have been plagued way too long with this stupid thing :-)

When I see bugs like a wallpaper could crash the lock screen I do wonder how these things could have been avoided in the first place... Is there some need for penetration test? Bringing down plasmashell, kwin or the complete system is happening way to often.

[tildearrow]

To Fix? 5.17.1 is already out...

[theriddick]

this is good because I couldn't figure out why sometimes my lock screen crashed/froze my desktop

[Guiluge]

To Fix? 5.17.1 is already out...

Indeed, 5.17.2 will even be released tomorrow.

[alcalde]

When I see bugs like a wallpaper could crash the lock screen I do wonder how these things could have been avoided in the first place...

It's not just the lockscreen... wallpaper on random shuffle routinely crashes plasmashell on my desktop, which I've reproduced inside VirtualBox too.