Bug 466209

Summary:	Tab key only switches between location bar, file view, and text fields in a loop once the file view gains focus
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	slartibart70
Component:	Open/save dialogs	Assignee:	KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aleixpol, jgrulich, karl, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	accessibility, usability
Version First Reported In:	5.103.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409540
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/4a77d4d5630950d5662befd936455c6b13285d99	Version Fixed/Implemented In:	6.11
Sentry Crash Report:

Description slartibart70 2023-02-21 20:21:03 UTC

In wayland using chrome or firefox, the xdg file open dialog and save-as (using  xdg-portal) is broken when operated by keyboard

Setup:
Use  the env.Var GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 and start firefox or chromium-freeworld, then try to open a file with Ctrl-O.
The open-file Portal dialog comes up.

Problem:
- use the TAB key to navigate inside the panel (don't klick with the mouse)
- several TAB presses later you will be stuck in a loop and cannot reach other dialog elements by TAB presses

Example
1st TAB goes to filter
next to zoom
next to places
next to the buttons
next to the list-panel
next to navigation bar (there you stay for 3 subsequent TABs)
next to list-panel
and then the loop starts by going back to the navigation-bar

Interestingly, shift-TAB gets you out of the loop

Things fix-worthy:
- why this tab order? (doesn't seem logical)
- why can't i go back to the file input field or filter?
- i never reach the icons neighboring 'zoom' (new folder, options)
- i never reach other icons in the 'symbol bar'

Comment 1 slartibart70 2023-02-21 20:46:50 UTC

Operating System: Fedora Linux 37
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.12-200.fc37.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz
Memory: 31,1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 630

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-02-21 21:48:07 UTC

This isn't a bug in the XDG dialog; it's actually the behavior of all KDE open/save dialogs, even for apps not using XDG portals. I can reproduce it everywhere.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-03-31 18:55:03 UTC

Working on this. I can also reproduce that if I hit Shift+Tab while the file view has focus, focus passes to the Cancel button. But indeed, using just the Tab key gets focus stuck in the file view itself.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2023-05-15 21:51:58 UTC

*** Bug 469285 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Marco Martin 2025-02-04 13:51:59 UTC

Git commit 4a77d4d5630950d5662befd936455c6b13285d99 by Marco Martin.
Committed on 04/02/2025 at 13:51.
Pushed by mart into branch 'master'.

A way to insert KUrlNavigator pieces in a deterministic place in the focus chain

QWidget::setTabOrder won't work correctly with KUrlNavigator, as by
itself it won't accept focus, but will contain child widgets on which
setTabOrder will be set by itself, altering the tab order that might
have been set by any parent widget
Related: bug 409540
FIXED-IN: 6.11

M  +39   -7    src/filewidgets/kfilewidget.cpp
M  +10   -1    src/filewidgets/kurlnavigator.cpp
M  +10   -0    src/filewidgets/kurlnavigator.h

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/4a77d4d5630950d5662befd936455c6b13285d99