Bug 506505

Summary: The search widget traps the keyboard cursor when the search field is focused
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Arkadiusz Ryszard Świętnicki <nuno69a>
Component: Search widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: alexander.lohnau, kde, nate, notmart
Priority: NOR Keywords: accessibility, usability
Version First Reported In: 6.4.1   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Arkadiusz Ryszard Świętnicki 2025-07-02 21:20:24 UTC 
SUMMARY
Entering the Search widget with the TAB key results in keyboard cursor trapping

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add a "Search" widget to your desktop, together with another widget, such as "Clipboard history".
2. Enter your desktop (Press META+D)
3. Use the TABV key to navigate the widgets.

OBSERVED RESULT
Entering the search widget field makes it impossible to exit it to get to another widget - the Tab key does not work

EXPECTED RESULT
The tab key should get out of the widget's search field and navigate to other elements on desktop

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.16.0-0.rc3.250627g67a993863163.35.fc43.aarch64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe
Manufacturer: Parallels International GmbH.
Product Name: Parallels ARM Virtual Machine
System Version: 0.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I am using the Orca screenreader
Comment 1 Marco Martin 2025-07-23 08:10:26 UTC 
I can reproduce, but only when there are results, the culript seems the result view that newver wants to lose focus
Comment 2 Marco Martin 2025-07-23 08:31:39 UTC 
hmm, actually scratch that, focus does come out of the result view and i can get the clipboard history search field focused with just tab.

tab order of the various things is a bit questionable perhaps, but doesn't get stuck, neither with tab nor backtab
Comment 3 Marco Martin 2025-07-23 08:33:35 UTC 
perhaps something interacting in Parallels?
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-07-23 14:17:42 UTC 
The issue happens when focus is in the search field; in there, Tab doesn't move elsewhere. If focus is on a search result, it works.

However I'm downgrading the priority since there's an easy workaround and these widgets aren't on the desktop by default.