KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixing Significant Issues With Fingerprint Authentication
There is less than two weeks to go until the official KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release. Plasma 6.6 is still seeing bug fixes in this final stretch of development while KDE developers are also busy already on Plasma 6.7 feature work.
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest highlights as Plasma 6.6 work winds down and Plasma 6.7 feature work continues heating up. Some of this week's KDE Plasma highlights include:
- Plasma 6.7 will allow the Window List widget to sort and show section headers in its full view.
- Plasma 6.7's window manager will now remember tiling padding per-screen.
- Squeezing into Plasma 6.6 is the automatic hiding of System Settings' Touchscreen Gestures page when there are no touchscreens on the given system.
- Plasma 6.6 also landed fixes for "multiple significant issues" in the lock-screen around fingerprint authentication, including one issue that could lead to breaking fingerprint unlocking. One of the bug reports was open since March 2024.
- Various other Plasma 6.6 bug fixes.
- Coming in the Plasma 6.5.6 point release is fixing a regression in sRGB ICC profile parsing that led to reduced color accuracy.
- KDE Frameworks 6.36 is fixing the maximum memory usage of KRunner when file searching is enabled.
More details on these changes via This Week in Plasma.
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest highlights as Plasma 6.6 work winds down and Plasma 6.7 feature work continues heating up. Some of this week's KDE Plasma highlights include:
- Plasma 6.7 will allow the Window List widget to sort and show section headers in its full view.
- Plasma 6.7's window manager will now remember tiling padding per-screen.
- Squeezing into Plasma 6.6 is the automatic hiding of System Settings' Touchscreen Gestures page when there are no touchscreens on the given system.
- Plasma 6.6 also landed fixes for "multiple significant issues" in the lock-screen around fingerprint authentication, including one issue that could lead to breaking fingerprint unlocking. One of the bug reports was open since March 2024.
- Various other Plasma 6.6 bug fixes.
- Coming in the Plasma 6.5.6 point release is fixing a regression in sRGB ICC profile parsing that led to reduced color accuracy.
- KDE Frameworks 6.36 is fixing the maximum memory usage of KRunner when file searching is enabled.
More details on these changes via This Week in Plasma.