{"id":225176,"date":"2025-10-25T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225176\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:00:13","slug":"kde-plasma-6-6-will-cater-to-windows-power-users-with-winver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225176\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Cater To Windows Power Users With “winver”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KDE\"
\nPlasma 6.5 debuted this week<\/a> that KDE developers and users have been celebrating. But it’s already on to working out fixes for Plasma 6.5.1 as well as new feature activity toward Plasma 6.6.<\/p>\n

KDE developer Nate Graham opened this week’s Plasma status update by commenting on the newly-released Plasma 6.5 being a “rather smooth” release. One significant regression noted was when using older AMD GPUs that the cursor would be turned into “Swiss cheese” but that regression is already fixed for Plasma 6.5.1. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile the newest Plasma developments this week included: <\/p>\n

– Plasma 6.6 when using the Task Manager will now let you adjust the volume of the audio played by a task when scrolling over it. <\/p>\n

– Adjacent category highlights in the Kickoff Application Launcher widgets no longer touch with Plasma 6.6. <\/p>\n

\"KDE<\/p>\n

– When searching for “winver” it will now show the “About this System” page in Plasma 6.6. Winver is used on Windows for the Microsoft Windows system version information. The merge<\/a> argues:
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“I thought that Windows power-users are very used to checking the system version by running the “winver” command on that operating system. To help their muscle memory, this new keyword is introduced to pull up system information when they enter that in the search bar.”<\/p>\n

– Plasma 6.5.1 will fix two recent crash regressions for KWin. <\/p>\n

– Plasma 6.5.1 will fix another case where Plasma could crash when hot-plugging screens. <\/p>\n

– PLasma 6.5.1 will also now properly round corners of GTK3 app menus. <\/p>\n

More details on this week’s Plasma changes via Nate’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plasma 6.5 debuted this week that KDE developers and users have been celebrating. But it’s already on to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5870,59,5869,5867,5866,5873,5871,5868,5872,5865,5876,86,5874,5875,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-225176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-linux-benchmarking","11":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","12":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","13":"tag-linux-how-to","14":"tag-linux-performance","15":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","16":"tag-open-source-graphics","17":"tag-phoronix","18":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","21":"tag-ubuntu-hardware","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}