| Summary: | Application Launcher is Only Mouse. No Keybaord Navigation in Menu [Regression] | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | John <kdelovaa> |
| Component: | Application Launcher (Kickoff) widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | kde, mikel5764, noahadvs, p.r.worrall |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 5.27.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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| Attachments: | Screenshot with text what is going on in "Application Launcher" | ||
The key to activate buttons is space not enter (in every program) which works for me The reason for this may not be clear, so I'll explain it. Basically, Qt (our UI toolkit) has conventions for how Space and Enter are used for activating controls. - Space: Pretty universally able to activate things, except for when Space needs to be treated as a character, such as in editable text controls. - Enter: Only used to activate list/grid/tree view items, menu items, the default button for a dialog, and accept text in text fields. Why is this? My guess is that Win32 for Windows does the same thing, so Qt did it too. I don't know if Cocoa for MacOS works the same way, but there's a good chance it does. There is a mechanism for globally changing what keys can activate buttons, but we haven't used it yet and it would mean default buttons in dialogs often won't be activated when Enter is pressed when they used to be. |
Created attachment 157514 [details] Screenshot with text what is going on in "Application Launcher" SUMMARY: ---> A screenshot is attached (a picture is worth thousand words, just look at it).<--- Navigating to "Application Launcher" [described as "launcher to start application"] is only mouse compatible. Keyboard navigation fails. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open "application launcher" 2. navigate with arrow keys/tab to "slepp, hibernate, restart, shutdown" and chose "shutdown" 3. Press Enter [to shutdown the system] OBSERVED RESULT Fail to execute Enter while "shutdown" is highlighted. Navigating with keyboard is a major thing on a desktop. So, I put it in "major" EXPECTED RESULT: Fully reinstate keyboard navigation in KDE, SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS: Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.27.3 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.104.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.15.8 Qt Version: X11