KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta: New Login Manager, USB Portal and Wayland improvements

9 months ago by ekZepp to c/linux

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta introduces a replacement for SDDM, a new virtual keyboard, a USB portal for sandboxed apps, and OCR support in Spectacle...

Key points:

  • Introduce plasma-login-manager as a modern replacement for SDDM.
  • New virtual plasma-keyboard and OEM plasma-setup wizard.
  • Critical improvements in Wayland: XRandr emulation and reliable screen mirroring.
  • USB portal for security in isolated apps and OCR support in Spectacle.
  • Accessibility controls for edge contrast and Wi-Fi connection via QR code.
boredsquirrel 18 points 9 months ago

These are some crazy big things!!

Plasma-login is nice, has some very needed things

Plasma-keyboard is essential for anyone on a convertible or even tablet, as the old maliit keyboard is abandonware

The usb portal will be really useful

Ocr support in spectacle! This exists on proprietary android but not AOSP, and on windows too. Really neat. I hope the integration is nice, this is a really big UI task.

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cravl 6 points 9 months ago

I'll be so glad to ditch maliit, it isn't responsive at all and gets pushed off the screen by a simple vertical taskbar. Even worse, it spams the journal with so much unnecessary debug info that I never found any way to turn off or filter out.

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Neptr 2 points 9 months ago

OCR support seems really cool. Currently for OCR I either use NormCap, or on Android some random OCR on f-droid which doesnt have any crazy perms.

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idriss 12 points 9 months ago

I can't wrap my head around how good KDE has become, I end up crawling back to KDE every time. If some nice person will bake a native tilling mode like cosmic, it will be very hard to convince me to switch away from KDE.

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LeFantome 6 points 9 months ago

I never liked KDE. I used it before there was GNOME but I used GNOME 2 for years and Cinnamon or XFCE after that.

I probably tried KDE4 once and KDE5 a couple times. Not for me. But I have used KDE a lot since Plasma 6. I have to agree with you. They are doing a great job. It is probably the best environment for Wayland.

I also use COSMIC a bit and Niri is my favourite environment. But I do seem to be using Plasma 6 a lot. It is sitting in front of me now.

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hDGGgrLpg8nEucjxWnJz 4 points 9 months ago

It's not native, but I've been daily driving krohnkite for about a year now and it works so well I forget it's a kwin script.

Paired with Klassy to highlight the active window.

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CtrlAltDyeet 5 points 9 months ago

Oh man I am so excited for the new keyboard! I had so many issues with trying to get one working on my Ally, and eventually had to give up because none of them scaled properly

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RIotingPacifist 3 points 9 months ago

Why the move from SDDM to PLM?

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Spectrism 14 points 9 months ago path: 0 21709401 21709582, hotness: undefined, score: 14, children: 0
Holytimes 6 points 9 months ago

SDDM is a duct taped together mess. It's functional in so far that it works. If your nice to it and never ask it to do anythung weird.

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GraveyardOrbit 6 points 9 months ago
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phoenixz 2 points 9 months ago

Will this make it in Kubuntu 26.04? That'd be awesome!

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OhmeHose 1 point 9 months ago

Even if not. You can always just update it to the latest version:)

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