{"id":400051,"date":"2026-01-10T23:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400051\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:35:13","slug":"kde-plasma-6-6-adds-oo7-secret-service-provider-support-save-as-new-global-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400051\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds oo7 Secret Service Provider Support, Save As New Global Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KDE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kde.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nWith new volunteers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KDE-This-Week-In-Plasma-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stepping up for This Week in Plasma<\/a>, there is a new issue out this week to highlight more development activities going into the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release.<\/p>\n<p>With the end of year holidays past, KDE developers are back to working expeditiously on new feature activity for Plasma 6.6. Some of this week&#8217;s highlights include:&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Plasma 6.6 will allow you saving your current visual settings as a new global theme.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Bluetooth system tray widget added a &#8220;forget device&#8221; action.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Plasma log-out screen on capable systems will be able to indicate when restarting the system if it&#8217;s set by default to boot into a different operating system or boot option on reboot.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768088113_820_image.webp\" alt=\"KDE reboot\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Power and Battery widget will now indicate what specific power management actions apps are blocking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The System Settings Thunderbolt page will now hide itself on systems lacking Thunderbolt connectivity.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Spectacle now remembers the size of its man window across launches. Under X11 it will also remember the position of the window albeit that isn&#8217;t currently a possibility on Wayland.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Various other widget improvements.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Plasma 6.6 implemented support for the oo7 Secret Service provider.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Various bug fixes like a bug that made Plasma quit when disconnecting the last screen.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>More details for those interested via <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kde.org\/2026\/01\/10\/this-week-in-plasma-car-of-the-year-edition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Week in Plasma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With new volunteers stepping up for This Week in Plasma, there is a new issue out this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-400051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}