This Week in Plasma: new year, new accessibility features! - KDE Blogs

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Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

Plasma developers are starting to trickle back from their vacations, and are polishing up and merging work that was nearing completion late last year. Among them are some impactful accessibility features, plus lots more holiday goodies!

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/03/this-week-in-plasma-new-year-new-accessibility-features
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Using a game controller will now count as “activity”, stopping the system from automatically going to sleep or locking the screen. (Yelsin Sepulveda, KDE bug #328987)

Note that this also comes with mouse emulation (as well as arrow keys and Enter/Esc/Meta/etc.) as long as no other app is using the game controller. Thanks Yelsin and GSoC! (Hardcoded button assignments, for now.)

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