While I love the true android look of my KF
Frankly it was the "Carousel" that I hated the most and how it kept a huge shortcut icon to every document and web page you ever opened.
and the only way to clean it up was to press& hold each one individually and select "remove"
Anyway I am three weeks on with GL version 2.78 as my default home screen with rotating wall paper and my own custom wall paper images , so it seems I have not hit upon the magic combination that causes the problems.