Bug 469285

Summary: Can’t navigate back to filename field in open/save dialog using keyboard (Tab key)
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl>
Component: Open/save dialogsAssignee: KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: kdelibs-bugs, nate, p.r.worrall
Priority: NOR Keywords: accessibility
Version: 5.105.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Karl Ove Hufthammer 2023-05-02 18:41:53 UTC
SUMMARY
In an open/save dialog, when you navigate away from the filename field using the Tab key, it’s no longer possible to navigate back to it using the Tab key. You‘re stuck in a ‘Folder → File listing → Edit path button’ cycle.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start (e.g.) Kate.
2. Click the Open icon.
3. (You’re now in the Filename field.) Press the ‘Tab’ key to switch to the Filter field, then ‘Tab’ to switch to the zoom slider field, then ‘Tab’ to switch to the Places panel (it’s not possible visually to see that you’re there, but you are), and then ‘Tab’ to switch to the Folder/path field.
4. Repeatedly press the ‘Tab’ key.

OBSERVED RESULT
You‘re stuck in a loop, switch between ‘Folder → File listing → Edit path button → Folder → …’. You can’t navigate back to the filename field or any of the field listed in step 3 (without using the mouse pointer).

EXPECTED RESULT
After pressing ‘Tab’ when you’re at the ‘Edit path button’ (a checkmark), you should return to the ‘Filename’ field, so that you can cycle through *all* elements.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230428
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 6.2.12-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: MSI
Product Name: MS-7673
System Version: 1.0
Comment 1 Paul Worrall 2023-05-03 09:29:20 UTC
Bug confirmed.

FYI, you can keyboard-navigate back to the filename box with Alt-N
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-05-15 21:51:58 UTC
Yeah, it's not great. See Bug 466209.

I tried to fix it recently but failed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 466209 ***