I have termoid enabled as a widget on the desktop and cannot use it because everytime I press a key the launcher opens up searching for anything relevant I type. It steals focus from the widget. Grave cause I disabled every search item and could NOT find anyway to disable the search launcher.
While I can reproduce your issue the bug lies in QMLTermWidget, it never requests focus and as such keyboard events are never delivered to it. I placed a setFocus(true, Qt::MouseFocusReason); call in TerminalDisplay::mousePressEvent() and then the terminal started working just fine. Please report this issue to either the author of the plasmoid or QMLTermWidget. Thanks.