I did a few tests:

On the first reboot after installing qtdeclarative from the Wily PPA on
Vivid, I probably got lucky and managed to plug/unplug the external
monitor 4 times before the first crash (nvidia-340's xrandr also stopped
detecting changes for the next 2 topology changes at that point,
although that's nothing new).

On subsequent reboots I'm getting Plasma/Kwin/Konsole crashes on almost every 
screen change. 
Some changes in behaviour that I noticed:

1. Dr. Konqi is started for kwin crashes, but no window appears (no mention of 
it in xlsclients either).
2. Dr. Konqi is not started for plasmashell crashes (crashes on almost every 
screen change).
3. Dr. Konqi is not started for Konsole crashes (crashes on every screen 
change).
4. krunner does not crash on screen change - it crashes instead when called 
with Alt+F2, with Dr. Konqi appearing. It doesn't allow me to report krunner 
crashes by the way, but that's another bug. The backtrace (which I'm attaching) 
is different this time, there's no physicalSize() in it. Luckily it's restarted 
right after usually, so there's a way to recover manually.
5. System Settings 5 also usually crashes around screen changes; that's caught 
by apport however, which gives me zero information.
6. Usually after a crash, the Plasma panel flickers, with only the spacer being 
displayed when not flickering, and can't be clicked. Disabling composition with 
the shortcut works around this.

All in all, I'd say the behaviour has improved a bit, as regards the
frequency of crashes; however, losing Dr. Konqi is mildly disappointing.

I have to apologise here for jumping on this patch without having tested
it myself first. I'll try pre-attaching gdb to kwin/plasmashell/konsole
to get backtraces out of them, and a Fedora install in the next days to
see if the crashes are really fixed, at least on my machine, and report
back.

** Attachment added: "New krunner backtrace"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtdeclarative-opensource-src/+bug/1450137/+attachment/4396120/+files/krunner-20150511-231019_xrandr%2Bqtdeclarative_ubuntu8.kcrash.txt

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