Since upgrading to 6.2.4.2.0, calc has seemingly changed the behaviour of the tab key. Formerly, pressing tab would move to the next cell and permit immediate entry of text into that cell. Now, I have to press the tab key again to enter text. Once text has been entered, pressing tab moves the cursor forward to the next cell but does not allow text entry. Pressing any key after a single tab results in varying behaviour but is possibly seems to behave as if the ctrl key was held down. Pressing the tab key a second time does not move the cursor and then permits entry of text as normal. I can find no settings within the menus that would seem to control this behaviour. Linux kernel 4.19.52 gcc 8.3.0 kde plasma 5.57.0
Can not confirm on Windows builds of 6.2.4.2 or current master/6.4.0; a <Tab> into a Calc sheet's cell is immediately able to alter the cell content. Please retest with a clean default user profile (done via the Help -> Restart in Safe Mode dialog.
Please provide the info from About -> Libre Office (text is selectable). But since you explicitly mention kde plasma, I guess VCL is kde5 and it's quite probably a duplicate of bug 125548, which is fixed in 6.2.5.
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Apologies - I downgraded to remove the problem and now have version 6.2.8.2 which does not display the behaviour noted. I can assume this has indeed be fixed.