Comment # 4 on bug 1004954 from Wolfgang Bauer

(In reply to Stakanov Schufter from comment #3)
> (In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #2)
> > Please report different problems separately.
> Sorry, I was in doubt and will do so accordingly in the future. 

No problem, but please do so in the future.
It's really hard to handle problems this way.

> > May be related to bug#1003399, should be fixed in Plasma 5.8.1 which should
> > be part of RC1.
> I will try with RC1 and then report back here then. Thank you. 

Thanks for that.

> > I think something in this regard has been fixed upstream as well recently.
> > Need to check though.
> Shame on me, my desktop (and part of my chicken-brain) are working in
> Italian. Yes it is the weather applet. The link provided is giving you a
> screen shot of what it looks like. It is minor but I thought to tell because
> it came up after an update from 42.1. 

Yes, the main problem here was/is that plasmoids can "leak out" I suppose.
I can't find any fix for that right now (though I am remembering it), but let's
see.

> > > Screen resolution: the resolution (during update on virtual machine kvm) was
> > > NOT taken over from previous install which cause the task bar (set to hide
> > > automatic) to fail.
> > 
> > You mean settings from Plasma5 or KDE4?
> > 
> > The latter are not migrated, yes.
> > Not a new problem, and rather an upstream design decision.
> Uhhh. I do not know. I was running 42.1 to be updated. Although I was using
> KDE PIM version 4 I do not thing I was running KDE4. AFAIK 42.1 is running
> plasma 5. Thus the bug I report here is: the resolution settings were not
> taken over from the standard desktop (plasma5?) of 42.1. Bear in mind
> however that this is a KVM (I am not at my desk right now) so I do not trust
> virtualized machines to behave as real ones when it comes to graphics. Still
> I reported to keep trace. When I will be back I will be able to perform
> these steps on real nvidia hardware, I will report back then (as long as you
> do not tell me that the default desktop of 42.1 is kde4, I doubt it).

The default (and only KDE related) desktop in 42.1 is Plasma5.
So that's not the problem then.

There have been fixes to Plasma5's (kscreen's) handling of outputs though,
maybe they have caused this.
In other words, it may have been caused by a bug in previous versions that has
been fixed now.
Not sure if that could (or should) be fixed then...