Bug 356688 - Cannot navigate calendar grid with the keyboard
Summary: Cannot navigate calendar grid with the keyboard
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: libplasma
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: components (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Klapetek
URL:
Keywords: accessibility
: 440971 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-12-14 16:43 UTC by Michal Svec
Modified: 2021-08-16 17:18 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Michal Svec 2015-12-14 16:43:16 UTC
It would be great to navigate the calendar widget with arrows (eg Left -> previous month,
Right -> next month). Right now one could configure a hot key to show the calendar, but
then it's necessary to use mouse to move between months.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Tom 2015-12-15 23:45:08 UTC
I don't know how to vote for this so i will say here in the comment +1
Comment 2 Martin Klapetek 2015-12-29 20:21:45 UTC
Thanks for the report

I've just checked and actually no systray applets
have keyboard navigation. I don't know if that is
the system limitation or if none just implements
it.

I'll have to investigate that issue first.
Comment 3 Michal Svec 2015-12-29 21:09:28 UTC
BTW it used to be possible in the past, at least somehow. Using the TAB key enough times
the widget got to a state where one could use arrows to navigate it by days.

> I've just checked and actually no systray applets
> have keyboard navigation. I don't know if that is
> the system limitation or if none just implements
> it.

I'd not be afraid, the calendar widget could be the first one :)
Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-12-29 21:56:14 UTC
> I've just checked and actually no systray applets
> have keyboard navigation. I don't know if that is
> the system limitation or if none just implements it.

I just recently fixed a bunch of issues related to keyboard focus getting lost somewhere in system tray. I can defintely tab through controls of Battery Monitor and scroll through Plasma NM. It's just that the active focus highlighting is nearly invisible with the new Breeze Plasma theme.
Comment 5 Alexander Mentyu 2017-08-29 07:02:25 UTC
I noticed that up and down arrows are working as navigation in Clipboard widget only.

Left/right and up/down arrows could be used as navigation in Calendar widget, Space key could be used as go to current date feature.
Comment 6 Justin Zobel 2021-03-12 23:23:14 UTC
You can tab through to get to the < and > controls but it would be nice to be able to navigate directly from the calendar itself.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2021-08-16 17:18:51 UTC
*** Bug 440971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***