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This Week in Plasma: lots of cool stuff
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There are now global actions for seeking forwards or backwards 5 or 30 seconds in the currently playing media. These work as long as the current media player supports letting other apps control seeking via MPRIS. The actions don’t have keyboard shortcuts assigned by default, but you can set them yourself.
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KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Add New Media Controls, Widget Tweaks
KDE developers continue preparing Plasma 6.6, and although there are still a few months to go before the final stable release (scheduled for February 17, 2026), the team has published on the KDE Blogs what changes to expect from this version. After covering some of them last week, we now have a new batch to look at.
Plasma 6.6 will introduce new global actions for seeking forward or backward by fixed intervals, 5 or 30 seconds, when controlling MPRIS-compatible media players. These actions ship without default shortcuts, letting users map them to their preferred keys.
Additionally, the Window List widget gains new behavior options, including showing its menu on hover and displaying only the active window name when desired. Users will also be able to reorder icons in the Lock/Logout widget.
On the visuals side, the screen and window chooser dialogs in the XDG portal system have been simplified. Canceling a paste operation on the desktop will no longer trigger unnecessary error notifications. Web Browser and Audio Volume widgets in standalone panel form will gain pin buttons, allowing their pop-ups to remain open while interacting with them.
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This Week in GNOME: #227 Circle Benefits
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from November 22 to November 29.
Sophie (she/her) says
The benefits for GNOME Circle projects now explicitly include the participation in internship programs as well as the inclusion on the help.gnome.org, welcome.gnome.org, apps.gnome.org or developer.gnome.org pages.