Two weeks ago I updated my desktop and laptop to suse 42.2 Before I have used version 13.1 which I appreciated because of its stability. What I heard about 42.1 , espacially KDE 5 was deterrend so I waited for 42.2 until 13.1 ran out of support. Installation was quite smooth. Since then I had the following KDE 5.8.3 experiences

- Symbols are reordered on each reboot on my asus laptop
- Systemsetting crashed frequent times after entering a Background for the lockscreen
- Kontact crashed on first start.
- the kwallet integration is a mess
- weather widget on the desktop can not be moved and not be deleted.
- crashes of amarok, lockscreen, all other openGL apps. The openGL crach is triggered by using PIM Events in the watch widged on the systray (reproduceable) and maintains even after reboot. It can only be cured by deleting the akonadi folder under config.

So my request is: Please do not develop new features. Make KDE stable again.
Thanks

kde is an ecosystem - i assume you refer to plasma?
im on opensuse tumbleweed and have very few of these problems.
i sympothise with your plea for kde in general, and i wish they would prioritise the basics - but plasma 5.8.x is quite stable.
- kwallet is fine if you adjust the settings (like only ever asking for password once)
- If opengl crashes when certain apps are open then this sounds like graphics/gpu problem? (i.e. the app triggers a problem rooted in graphics driver*)
- stuck widgets (bug) can be removed by deleting the rc file.

The most urgent problem with opengl has been solved by an update of the nvidia driver in the nvidia repository this week. After two days of intensive use after the nvidia update I had no more instabilities. So even if the start of the arkonadi server reproducable killed opengl it was obviously not correct to blame kde for this.

Thanks for the hint on the widget bug.

Before Krista' last update my post would of been along those lines, as Krita crashed at least once a session.After the last update not one crash wow.I am running Windows 7 have plenty of ram a good machine in all.Even though Krita was crashing a lot I never lost any work thank you auto save.Krita uses a lot of memory a lot more than say Gimp,both made for Linux both ported over to windows.If your running a Windows OS be patient Krita is getting it sorted judging by the lasted version.