[Bug 1451800] [NEW] Wish: Please provide an easy downgrade path to LTS

[Sergio Callegari]

Public bug reported:

Kubuntu keeps saying that "We provide Kubuntu 14.04LTS for those who
still prefer Plasma 4".

But users who moved from LTS to utopic, now are *forced* to Plasma 5
even if it is still a regression in almost any sense. I am sure, that
with time it will become a great desktop, but for now:

- Plasma frequently crashes (in many occasions works goes lost)
- Kwin fails badly on nvidia hardware with legacy 304 driver (all users with legacy nvidia hardware are left in the cold, unless they manually install a known patch)
- .profile is not sourced by KDM (a lot of user configured stuff breaks)
- The login manager does not support a guest user
- Hplip cannot dock in the system tray (all users get a nasty error at every login and then stay without HP printer support, unless they manually install a known patch)
- Plasma desktop crashes when adding an external monitor and switching primary output (so users with external monitors are left in the cold)
- The session manager is not able to restore applications to the proper virtual desktops (which is worse than not having session management at all)
- Some widgets once added cannot be removed because they make plasma crash when one tries to remove them (notably cpu load), so that one has to manually remove them one by one, otherwise users try to use them.
- Screen savers support is completely missing (so machines occasionally get confused for being switched off and unplugged)
- The system settings are incomplete wrt what was available in plasma 4
- Some buttons in system settings do nothing (e.g. Online Accounts -> create -> Google). Why are those buttons there in first place?
- and more...

** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Summary changed:

- Wish: Please provide an easy downgrade path LTS
+ Wish: Please provide an easy downgrade path to LTS

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