Bug 159982

Summary: Wish for a more keyboard navigation friendly KDE panel
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Magnus Johansson <johanssongreppet>
Component: widget-kickoffAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: angel_blue_co2004, bluedzins
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Magnus Johansson 2008-03-27 23:45:27 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

Dear developers,

I have tried out KDE 4 from the CD OpenSUSE 10.3 GM KDE Live. Myself being a "keyboard navigator" and some kind of "power user" I became disappointed that the Panel is less user-friendly from my point of view than is the case in KDE 3.5.

1. I couldn't find a way to assign a keyboard shortcut for opening the K-menu.

2. The K-menu opens with the cursor in the search field, thus making it impossible to directly type the initial(s) of the menu entry you want to open.

3. The tabs in the K-menu are not really to my liking (they are for example upside-down), but I can see the advantage of the K-menu not flooding the screen with its submenus. The tabs should however be at least selectable by typing initial(s) or an underlined letter instead of walked through with the arrow keys.

4. I couldn't find a way to step back from e.g. Applications submenu without mouse clicking.

There are more concerns and suggested improvements concerning the Panel, but these will do for now. If this new Panel design and behaviour suits "mouse (or other pointing device) navigators" I think a good decision would be to have the possibility of choosing an improved 3.5-style Panel for those who navigate with the keyboard.

Regards,
Magnus Johansson
Comment 1 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-11-14 20:22:41 UTC 
This wish is rather about KMenu, see report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175152
about panel wishes.
Comment 2 Angel Blue01 2009-03-05 03:26:20 UTC 
2 in this list has been addressed in 4.2 (right-click, settings, keyboard)

4 has been addressed in 4.2 (alt-arrow)
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:20:00 UTC 
Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham