Bug 218537

Summary: System Settings application is unsable (or hard to use) without mouse
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: La Wezen <wezen>
Component: sidebarviewAssignee: Marco Martin <notmart>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: bfeber, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.15.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description La Wezen 2009-12-13 17:14:09 UTC 
Version:           1.0 (using KDE 4.3.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

There is on way to use properly the System Settings Application w/o mouse. This is real usability downgrade since KDE 3.5. Too many unneeded features implemented but general functionality doesn`t work. I think this is very important to make KDE 4 more usable for keyboard users.

1) There is no standard menu. How I can active toolbar features (like Configure)?
2) I can navigate to Quick Search control only by Tab key (press it until I get it). There is simple way to add label with accelerator or activate it just by start typing.
3) How I can navigate when Quick Search contain some filter. Tab stops on first active item if the next item is grayed (disabled). Why filter doesn`t hide filtered items?
4) In classic view filter doesn`t affect right view.
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and this list may be expanded up to 10 items by any user with the unplugged mouse.

It`s time to make KDE 4 pretty...
Comment 1 Inge Wallin 2009-12-13 19:45:40 UTC 
Not a kchart bug.  Moving to systemsettings.
Comment 2 Ben Cooksley 2009-12-14 09:23:19 UTC 
System Settings does not use a standard menu bar, primarily since it would be completely empty, and this a waste of vertical space.

You can use Ctrl + F to bring focus to the Search Line Edit. I will add a tooltip for this in 4.5, since the string freeze is now in effect.

I have added a shortcut to current trunk, Ctrl + M which will bring up the Configure dialog.

For the classic view, this is due to it not supporting the disabled state.
Comment 3 Ben Cooksley 2009-12-14 09:23:55 UTC 
SVN commit 1062211 by bcooksley:

Add shortcut for Configure action.
CCBUG: 218537

 M  +1 -0      SettingsBase.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1062211
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2019-09-15 21:14:14 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 404065 ***