KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Let You Fine-Tune Mouse and Touchpad Speed

The KDE team is pressing ahead with work on the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop release. The latest issue of the weekly “This Week in Plasma” digest lists the notable additions headed for the release.

Fine-tuning input

One of the interface improvements is the ability to precisely adjust mouse and touchpad speed. Alongside the familiar sliders for scroll speed and pointer movement, there is now a numeric input field. The idea traces back to a user request from all the way back in 2023: a slider is convenient, but it doesn't always let you dial in the exact value with enough precision.

Some smaller touches were polished up separately, too: the emoji picker in Plasma 6.8 uses a single, consistent order for the gendered variants of symbols.

Remote desktop

Remote desktop sessions in Plasma 6.8 gain a fully featured shared clipboard. On top of that, a situation was fixed in which the remote-access server could crash when a connection was closed.

Other fixes

Plasma 6.8 has learned to more reliably pin to the task bar applications packaged as Flatpaks or built with Nix. In KDE Connect for Frameworks 6.30, a bug was fixed that had caused the process to fully load a single CPU core.

The stable branch wasn't forgotten either: in Plasma 6.7.5 the KWin window manager now supports more than one wl_data_device Wayland device, which improves dragging elements in Firefox.

A more detailed rundown of the new features in Plasma 6.8, as well as the fixes in the 6.6 and 6.7 branches, is available in the latest issue of “This Week in Plasma.”

Source: Phoronix