SUMMARY High resolution scrolling is broken when starting Plasma in Wayland mode. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. have a mouse capable of high resolution scrolling (MX Master 3 in my case) 2. launch Plasma in Wayland mode OBSERVED RESULT mouse behaves like an oldschool mouse with a stepped scroll wheel EXPECTED RESULT mouse should scroll smoothly like under X11 SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230727 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.6 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.108.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.4.6-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
Applications need to support high resolution scrolling for it to be used, and Qt 5 has no support for it. This will be fixed as apps upgrade to Qt 6