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This Week in Plasma: new year, new accessibility features!
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this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2026
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Based on the actual bug report, because the people working on this are volunteers and the workaround is simple.
If you think fixing bugs like these is a worthwhile endeavour, chip in some money or volunteer. There are many ways for people volunteer that aren't writing code, so if you aren't a software developer don't let that discourage you.
Indeed, I imagine controller support is not one of the top priorities of plasma. It is likely most developers do not even have a controller to test whether changes affect its usability.
However, just so it is clear, no it is not only volunteers. There is people paid to maintain KDE and plasma. That is why it is a good idea to give some money to the project if you use it: it actually improves the thing.