Bug 407214

Summary: Pressing Enter or Ctrl+Tab after typing on the filter or search fields is not very intuitive
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Thiago Sueto <herzenschein>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: elvis.angelaccio, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 18.12.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thiago Sueto 2019-05-04 11:58:01 UTC
SUMMARY
When using filter or search, there's no indicator that Enter is necessary to switch focus to the directory view, unlike with browsers, krunner, kickoff and okular.
Unlike these, however, the ability to navigate through typed text in the search and filter fields seems to be desirable, considering the powerful nature of Dolphin search.

Ctrl+Tab also works, but is actually more inexpected. It's typically used for switching tabs on browsers, and Dolphin itself uses it for switching tabs created with Ctrl+T.

Shift+Tab eventually transfers focus to the directory view, but it requires too many presses, 3.

Tab is typically expected to switch focus to other elements in typical keyboard-centered workflows, but is currently afflicted by https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407213

SUGGESTION 
When filter or search is highlighted, aside from Enter and Ctrl+Tab, add Tab as a key that immediately transfers focus to directory view.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-05-12 22:03:54 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 403379 ***