Bug 453123

Seems too niche to do IMO. We should fix the tab ordering issue first and see if that's good enough.

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> We should fix the tab ordering issue first
Is that some particular issue in particular you have in mind?

One could highlight better what element is in focus right now, but the fact that you need to cycle through several elements to get to places and then to several elements back to the area where files and folders are displayed is inherent. I do not see a rationale why places should be the element that is one tab away from there instead of something else. I think the default ordering of where tab should go is spatial, no?

I guess I should have added a use case. The use case it to access a place in places quickly using keyboard. Another option to achieve that would be to have the places accessible in menu, so one could hit ALT (when using the HUD) and type their name. However, given terminal has its own focus shortcut, it does not seem consistent to me not to have one (at least optionally) for other panels.

Maybe another alternative would be bookmarks, but as far as I can see, they cannot be displayed visually in the places panel (and altogether seem puzzling to me:-)).

Hi,

There are tons of shortcuts for dolphins, but none to focus back and forth between places and files which I do think a lot of users would benefit

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/469326/keyboard-shortcut-to-focus-the-file-list-in-dolphin
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/u1wrek/can_you_create_shortcuts_for_files_and_folders_in/

From https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479078

Alt-tabbing to the Places panel frequently is cumbersome (need to press Alt+Tab multiple times) and unpredictable (depending on the number of elements opened the number of needed Alt+Tab presses changes).

Moreover there is no configurable shortcut for focusing on the Places panel.

I suggest to move focus automatically to the Places panel after pressing F9 (default shortcut for hiding and showing it) just like it's done for Ctrl+F for searching or Ctrl+I for for filtering, where the focus moves automatically to the search filed and filter field respectively.

From https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455688
SUMMARY

For entries in the Dolphin Places section allow keyboard shortcuts for easier keyboard centric navigation.

Currently no provision for this exists.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Add or Edit an entry in Dolphin Places section
2. In addition to label, location and icon also allow a keyboard shortcut to be entered.
3. Allow for navigate to this location using the keyboard shortcut.

OBSERVED RESULT

Functionality doesn't currently exist.

EXPECTED RESULT

Keyboard navigation to Places locations without needing a mouse.

*** Bug 455688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I have added an action "Focus Places Panel" with the default shortcut Ctrl+P in https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/f220e3b0783a24a6c7195f170297cf4b12a29d85. Pressing the shortcut again while the Places panel has focus moves the focus back to the main view area. This will be available in Dolphin 24.12.0.

>I suggest to move focus automatically to the Places panel after pressing F9
>(default shortcut for hiding and showing it) just like it's done for Ctrl+F for
>searching or Ctrl+I for for filtering, where the focus moves automatically to
>the search filed and filter field respectively.

In the same commit linked above I have also made it so toggling the places panel visible moves the keyboard focus to it.

thanks, sounds great, can't wait to try it :-)