Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) OS: Linux This might be considered two different but related bugs; I'm choosing to report it as a single one. Tab navigation does happen between panels in dolphin but, at least in the default kde theme, I haven't been able to identify to where focus is changing - the highlight of the focus point is insufficient in most cases. Also, the path of tab navigation isn't 'graphically' linear; what I mean is that it seems to jummp back and forth around the default screen configuration. Also, forward tab navigation 'dies' in the terminal panel, in an unappealing way, as it causes the terminal to prompt "Display all 3306 possibilities (y or n)?" See Reproducability section below for more details Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Open dolphin. Set focus to the "home folder" item at the top of the "PLACES" panel. TAb - jumps to search box all the way on right tab - no idea tab - no idea tab - no idea tab - focus to terminal AND prompt message "Display all 3306 possibilities (y or n)?" tab - nothing shift-tab - succeeds moving focus out of terminal, but it goes right back to search bar. Return to initial state by setting focus to "home" entry on "PLACES" panel. Now use Shift-tab 1 - unknown 2 - close button on far right of search bar 3 - plus key on far left (!) of search bar 4 - search what button, TWO buttons right. 5 - search where button, button LEFT 6 - filter bar 7 - unknown 8 - unknown 9 - unknown, but up arrow at this point changes size of icons in directory panel 10 - directory panel 11 - breadcrumb line (navigator line) 12 - terminal Actual Results: see above in Reproducability Expected Results: Clearly visible change of focus, following an expected and visually linear path, and not dead-ending at the terminal panel (I realize this last part is not reasonable in terminal since we want tab completion, but then use another keybing instead of tab for ALL keyboard-change-of-focus-navigation
The Terminal handling the Tab key is expected, and most likely will not be changed. Actually Shift+Tab should be passed to the shell as well, see bug 244514. 7,8,9 is the Zoom slider (and its +/- buttons). Oxygen style fails to render focus indicator on the buttons, please report as an Oxygen bug. As for the other issues, the ordering can be improved, I guess.
actually, 8, if I understand right, is focused. That's the slider, it has a dark blue glow. 7 and 9 are not. Oxygen don't draw focus on flat buttons, like in toolbars.
also, as a user I expect that in SplitView mode Tab key is used for moving focus between views
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207789 ***