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KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta: New Login Manager, USB Portal and Wayland improvements (en.ubunlog.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] cravl@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days 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.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days 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.