This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here! - KDE Blogs

[ngraham]

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week we released Plasma 6.6! So far it’s getting great reviews, even on Phoronix. 😁

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/21/this-week-in-plasma-6.6-is-here

[Mixmax]

I must say that I’m always a little bit confused every time I disable WiFi because of the “desktop screen + Ethernet cable” icon since I’ve only been using laptops for years, and haven’t used one with Ethernet port for at least ten years. Or maybe it’s even any FireWire 800 cable in the icon (like I had one on a now 20 years old laptop)?

But I’m still okay with the floppy drive as the save icon, so maybe it’s only some technologies that haven’t aged as well

[goslin]

Any reason why has stopped including the 15 minute and high priority bugs count?

[ngraham]

@Mixmax

I must say that I’m always a little bit confused every time I disable WiFi because of the “desktop screen + Ethernet cable” icon since I’ve only been using laptops for years, and haven’t used one with Ethernet port for at least ten years. Or maybe it’s even any FireWire 800 cable in the icon (like I had one on a now 20 years old laptop)?

Yeah, that’s why I fixed it!

@goslin

Any reason why has stopped including the 15 minute and high priority bugs count?

See This Week in Plasma: getting 6.6 ready for release - KDE Blogs - #8 by ngraham

[Trog-Troginson]

Y’all fix these issues too quickly! By the time I get around to diagnosing issues with my system, they are fixed in an update! Now I actually get to use my computer and be productive instead of procrastinate diagnosing issues!

To be fair, my overall experience with KDE has been basically perfect. 11/10.

[frenzie]

On Wayland, you can optionally synchronize the stylus pointer with the mouse/touchpad pointer if this fits your stylus usage better. (Joshua Goins, KDE Bugzilla #505663)

What about the issue that touch input and the cursor aren’t synced up properly?

[rokejulianlockhart]

@ngraham

The old print queue dialog has been replaced with a full-featured print queue viewer app, allowing you to visualize multiple queues of multiple printers connected locally or over the network! It still offers a good and normal experience for the common case of having one printer, but now also includes loads of enterprisey features relevant to environments with many printers. (Mike Noe, print-manager MR #280)

@noee, does it still provide a table view?

I ask because I imagine that seeing the properties of lots of jobs might be difficult with a card-based interface.

[noee]

The table view was retired. There is an option (top right corner) for “compact” mode, which shows just the job title and any actions available for the job, albeit still in card component.

[ducklion]

Plasma 6.6 seems to have a memory issue that crashes my system when using a browser with many tabs or opening two browsers. My system become unresponsive and requires a hard reboot.

[ngraham]

This is likely to be a system integration issue more relevant to your OS than Plasma. Total system freezes are generally caused by GPU driver issues, memory exhaustion, and I/O contention, none of which Plasma has that much control over.