Plasma 6.6 Beta 1 is released

[Rafael Sadowski]

On Tue Jan 13, 2026 at 07:03:23PM +0000, David Edmundson wrote:
> > Here are the new modules available in the Plasma 6.6 beta:
> 
> > - plasma-login-manager
> > - plasma-keyboard
> > - plasma-setup
> 
> Adding some context on the new repos for distributions:
> 
> Plasma Setup is intended for OEM installations; i.e selling a laptop
> with a KDE distro pre-installed, but not configured.
> It does not make sense for classic distributions to ship this and
> especially not to install in an upgrade path. Enabling it will cause
> the user to be met with a big setup screen as a temporary user next
> boot.
> 
> ----
> 
> Plasma Login Manager is a replacement for SDDM.
> 
> There is *no* requirement for Plasma 6.6 to switch the login managers,
> the Plasma SDDM theme and KCM are still being shipped in the same
> tarballs as before.
> A transition can be arranged in your own time, there is no rush.
> If the mandatory Plasma Login Manager systemd dependency is a problem
> please stick on SDDM.
> Obviously if you do switch to Plasma Login Manager, sddm-kcm can be dropped.
> 
> ----
> 
> Plasma keyboard is an on-screen keyboard. Installing is nice, it
> doesn't require any new notes.
> 
> David

Thanks for the information, that makes planning a lot easier for OpenBSD
7.9.

Rafael