KDE Plasma 6.6 shipped less than a month ago with new features like the new First-Run Wizard, a dedicated Plasma Login Manager, OCR support in Spectacle, and font management in Discover. Now, it is getting its second bug fix release, dubbed version 6.6.2, bringing fixes for issues in kdrp, KWin, Discover, and more.
Starting with KRdp, users who faced the issue where high-resolution scroll events from touchpads and certain RDP clients got ignored will be happy to hear that this has been fixed. Users reported that scrolling with a touchpad on a remote connection felt broken because the system ignored most scroll events unless you moved your fingers at warp speed. It turns out that some RDP clients send scroll data differently than others. Developers adjusted how the system tracks mouse positions and scroll deltas to handle these specific cases better.
In KWin, Text caret tracking is now respectful of your actual settings. Before this update, the tracking feature stuck itself to proportional mode even if you explicitly disabled it or set it to strict mode. That made typing difficult for users relying on screen magnifiers. Other changes in KWin include:
- A crash related to updating display modes on the DRM backend has been fixed.
- The workspace can now correctly find displays even when mirrored outputs are disabled.
- The game controller plugin now builds correctly on 32-bit systems.
- A placeholder output will no longer improperly change the power saving mode.
- Input gaps in window decorations have been sealed.
In Discover, there is a small fix for the "See more" arrows that appeared reversed in languages that read from right to left. Plasma Desktop saw over a dozen bug fixes, including one where widget resize handles now properly close when you exit edit mode.
Other fixes Plasma 6.6.2 ships with include a patch for the classic Oxygen theme, which now correctly indicates minimized windows in the taskbar. When you clear the clipboard history, it now also removes any secrets managed by the KWallet service, closing a potential information leak.
Spectacle no longer crashes when trying to export a rectangular region screenshot via KDE Connect. The network manager icon now properly reflects the connection status of bridged and VLAN interfaces. Finally, Plasma Mobile gained device support profiles for the Fairphone 5 and the Nothing Phone (1).
You can check out the full changelog here.