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
