Users usually look at the Info Center to see system information, including software versions, in particular.
I’ve noticed that kinfocenter actually shows its own package version as KDE Plasma Version.
However, this can sometimes be misleading, for example, if the Linux distro used implements KDE Plasma upgrades in a rolling style so that different packages might have different versions, such as 6.5.x, 6.6.x etc. at a given time.
This can be important especially when installing some third-party plasmoids and themes that require a minimum KDE Plasma version, including point releases.
So, kinfocenter should perhaps show the version that matters most, e.g. plasma-workspace package version or the output of plasmashell -–version (and then perhaps additional information if some plasma packages have some other version?).
Which distro? I am not seeing this on three different ones here. If it is a bug in kinfo on the cli or kinfocenter, then it will be easier to track down, I think.
This is happening in Debian Testing.
It might just be an edge case, but nevertheless I think logically KDE Plasma Version information should better not be retrieved by Info Center simply from its own package version as kinfocenter appear to be doing in its source code.
Isn’t that just temporary in case the distribution does not upload all related packages together?
Or is kinfocenter released on a different schedule than the rest of Plasma?
This is how KDE Plasma package upgrades are rolled out in Debian testing branch, which I find more stable than KDE neon regular edition in the long run, especially when it comes to system upgrades.
It’s temporary, but how long this interim state lasts may vary I think.