Bug 337268

Summary:	Kicker doesn't get focus when opened using a shortcut
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn>
Component:	Application Menu (Kicker) widget	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bhush94
Priority:	NOR
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Frederik Gladhorn 2014-07-09 10:37:31 UTC

Assigning kicker a shortcut (eg ALT-F1 to replace kickoff) works nicely to open the menu.
But when triggering the shortcut the keyboard focus does not move to the menu, for example the arrow keys have no effect and typing doesn't search.
Otherwise kicker does a pretty good job with focus handling and at least starting applications using only the keyboard and a screen reader works decently.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Bhushan Shah 2014-07-09 11:08:40 UTC

Duplicate of bug 335538 ?

Comment 2 Eike Hein 2014-07-09 13:27:20 UTC

Unfortunately yes.

@Keyboard stuff: Nice to hear! I tried to pay attention to keyboard behavior. Can't reach favorites with the keyboard yet though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 335538 ***

Comment 3 Frederik Gladhorn 2014-07-10 09:05:02 UTC

Eike: yes, I actually have a patch that let's you use the tab key for that purpose, it's relatively easy - it just sets the activeFocusOnTab property.

Comment 4 Eike Hein 2014-07-10 12:55:13 UTC

Sweet! Put it up on review board, it's sadly too late for 5.0 now but we'll tackle it soon.