Regressions in Plasma 5

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

Hi,

first of all, things like these belong directly into https://bugs.kde.org 
instead of on the ML because here things like that tend to be forgotten under 
the pile of mails that arrive daily.

>    - Icon-only task manager has no option to open new instances via middle
>    click. Shift-click has been just implemented, though

There's been a bit of discussion about what middle click should to, it has 
been agreed iirc that middle click will close the application to be consistent 
with all the other tabs (browsers, file manager, ...). Shift+Click will be the 
new launch new instance shortcut. There's also a bit of investigation going on 
to enable keyboard shortcuts such as Meta+1 for the first item in tray, Meta+2 
for the second, etc.

>    - No simple launcher plasmoid for one application. do i really have to
>    make a directory with a .desktop file and use a directory-view workspace
>    for this? (Scratched my own itch and created a to-be-released steam
>    plasmoid for my usecase!)

There is the icon plasmoid? Just drag an application onto the desktop and it 
will create a simple single icon for it.

Cheers,
Kai Uwe