Bug 356688

Summary:	Cannot navigate calendar grid with the keyboard
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] libplasma	Reporter:	Michal Svec <rebel>
Component:	components	Assignee:	Martin Klapetek <mklapetek>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bad63r, hsantanna, justin.zobel, kde, nate, notuxius, plasma-bugs-null, rootkit85
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	accessibility
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Michal Svec 2015-12-14 16:43:16 UTC

It would be great to navigate the calendar widget with arrows (eg Left -> previous month,
Right -> next month). Right now one could configure a hot key to show the calendar, but
then it's necessary to use mouse to move between months.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Tom 2015-12-15 23:45:08 UTC

I don't know how to vote for this so i will say here in the comment +1

Comment 2 Martin Klapetek 2015-12-29 20:21:45 UTC

Thanks for the report

I've just checked and actually no systray applets
have keyboard navigation. I don't know if that is
the system limitation or if none just implements
it.

I'll have to investigate that issue first.

Comment 3 Michal Svec 2015-12-29 21:09:28 UTC

BTW it used to be possible in the past, at least somehow. Using the TAB key enough times
the widget got to a state where one could use arrows to navigate it by days.

> I've just checked and actually no systray applets
> have keyboard navigation. I don't know if that is
> the system limitation or if none just implements
> it.

I'd not be afraid, the calendar widget could be the first one :)

Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-12-29 21:56:14 UTC

> I've just checked and actually no systray applets
> have keyboard navigation. I don't know if that is
> the system limitation or if none just implements it.

I just recently fixed a bunch of issues related to keyboard focus getting lost somewhere in system tray. I can defintely tab through controls of Battery Monitor and scroll through Plasma NM. It's just that the active focus highlighting is nearly invisible with the new Breeze Plasma theme.

Comment 5 Alexander Mentyu 2017-08-29 07:02:25 UTC

I noticed that up and down arrows are working as navigation in Clipboard widget only.

Left/right and up/down arrows could be used as navigation in Calendar widget, Space key could be used as go to current date feature.

Comment 6 Justin Zobel 2021-03-12 23:23:14 UTC

You can tab through to get to the < and > controls but it would be nice to be able to navigate directly from the calendar itself.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2021-08-16 17:18:51 UTC

*** Bug 440971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***