Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.6.1. Plasma 5.6 was released in March with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:

Fix drawing QtQuickControls ComboBox popups
Fix untranslatable string in Activities KCM.
Show ratings in Discover Packagekit backend

Complete Changelog

Bluedevil

KCM Devices: Fix tooltip text for add/remove buttons. Commit.

Breeze

Fix drawing correct focus state of QtQuickControls Button. Commit. Code review #127494
Fix flags compare in drawTitleBarComplexControl. Commit. Code review #127500
Fix 1px offset in QtQuickControls TabView frame. Commit. Code review #127464
Expand size of CT_ItemViewItem also with QtQuickControls. Commit. Code review #127463
Fix drawing QtQuickControls ComboBox popups. Commit. Fixes bug #343369. Code review #127460
For buttons that have neither icon nor text, assume custom button and use provided. Commit. Fixes bug #360061

Breeze GTK

Fix installation of breeze-dark. Commit. Code review #127465

Discover

Use QtQuick.Layouts instead of HTML to layout files. Commit.
Don't remove the Science applications from the Education section. Commit. Fixes bug #360920
Add test information. Commit.
Make sure we don't change the progressing attribute before starting the update. Commit.
Properly define what's the required Layouts version. Commit.
Improve test, to see if we can figure out what's going on in the CI. Commit.
Fall back to PackageKit when AppStream doesn't have information. Commit. Fixes bug #360919
Fix warnings. Commit.
Disable icon if the button is disabled. Commit.
Introduce a placeholder icon when appstream isn't providing an icon. Commit.
No need to store some information in every resource. Commit.
Remove some deprecated constructions. Commit.
Improve display of the applications list view. Commit.
Improve combined search and navigate behaviour. Commit. Fixes bug #360085
--warnings, --debug. Commit.
Offer some kind of ratings on the PackageKit backend. Commit.
Move the popcon parsing code to libdiscover. Commit.
Reduce certain memory allocations. Commit.

Plasma Addons

[showdesktop] Fix sizing of the plasmoid in the panel. Commit. Code review #127499
Fix 'Save as' option. Commit. Code review #127403

KHelpCenter

Use KLocalizedString::languages() for language list. Commit.

KDE Hotkeys

Explicitly set HAVE_XTEST in CMakeLists.txt, fixing mouse button faking in KHotkeys. Commit.

Info Center

Add alignment for label "KDE Frameworks Version". Commit. Fixes bug #360858

KWin

Revert "desktop grid: zoom hovered window". Commit.
Use a global static for animation ids. Commit. Code review #127276. Fixes bug #360068. See bug #352254
Ensure panel, desktop and onscreendisplay windows cannot be moved/resized. Commit.
[Window Rules] Fix simple shortcut not being transfered to text field. Commit. Fixes bug #360521

Milou

[Milou] Fix arrow keys being inverted when in a bottom panel. Commit. Fixes bug #360789

Plasma Desktop

Fix crash in relativeActivity. Commit. Fixes bug #361056
TaskManager: Force grouping for Icons-Only Task Manager. Commit.
Kcm_activities: Make QML-defined UI translatable. Commit.
Kcms/activities: Fix wrong usage of CMake macro ki18n_wrap_ui(). Commit.
Fixuifiles. Commit.
Fix memory leak in Kicker. Commit. Code review #127512
Handle non-existing kickoffrc correctly. Commit. Fixes bug #357029
Set config group. Commit. Fixes bug #357029
Make kcm_activities translatable. Commit.
Make activity manager translatable. Commit.
[Task Manager] Initiate drag only with left mouse button drag. Commit. Fixes bug #360720
Fix untranslatable string. Commit.
KActivitiesExperimentalStats translation domain changed. Commit.

plasma-integration

Remove possible file-name in KDEPlatformFileDialog::setDirectory(). Commit. Code review #126876
Don't filter by name if we have mime types. Commit. Code review #127024
Don't create ServerSideDecoration for non-toplevel QWindows. Commit.

Plasma Audio Volume Control

[ListItemBase] Increase/decrease volume by scroll wheel, removing MouseArea. Commit. Code review #127476

Plasma SDK

Engineexplorer: Fix i18n of .ui files. Commit.
Engineexplorer: Set translation domain for application. Commit.

Plasma Workspace

Disable text wrapping in BreezeHeading. Commit.
PanelView: Skip invalid screen geometries in updateStruts. Commit. See bug #348043
Modify keyboard focus order in lock screen. Commit.
[DrKonqi] Reliably quit when closing report assistant. Commit.
Fix length returned from PanelView::geometryByDistance. Commit.