Hi, In the last week I tested a new Plasma 5.8 feature "Look and feel layouts" to have something for our Plasma 5.8 promo materials. Let me share some experiences here.
1. Random crashes (especially when I switch "Look and feel layouts" for the first time. Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce this reliably 2. Basic functionality not working correctly https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367918 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368074 3. Some other weird bugs https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368022 Since this is a new feature bugs are to be expected and I am sure Plasma team will fix them for Plasma 5.8 release. But what worries me the most is the missing functionality of plasma look and feel packages https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367921 which may result in broken desktop https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367920 Simply put when users will download a new lf package from kde-look/store they will expect that plasma lf package will provide all elements like icons, wallpapers, plasma themes, plasma applets etc. We can't expect from our users to manually download all required packages when installing plasma lf package. I am afraid that in the current state we will get many comments from our users about yet another unfinished Plasma feature and not working content in KDE Store. So here my proposal. Lets postpone this feature for Plasma 5.9 and remove any visible parts from look and feel kcm ("use desktop layout from theme" and "get new looks"). So guys please work on this a little bit more and release something we can be proud of, like this: https://youtu.be/aLKHycF4rPw Cheers Łukasz Sawicki
