Created attachment 120620 [details] Demonstrates focus issues. SUMMARY The notes applet when the panel is large enough to have it show in its large form does not accept keyboard focus. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Make panel large enough to have notes applet in large form 2. Click on notes widget 3. Type OBSERVED RESULT Applet doesn't accept focus on the keyboard and input gets sent to the focused window. EXPECTED RESULT Applet accepts input instead of passing through to the focused window. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: 5.1.5-1 (openSUSE Default) KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.58.0 Qt Version: 5.12.3
Panels don't accept focus but I think if the applet sets its status to AcceptingInput while the text field has focus, it should work.
(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #1) > Panels don't accept focus but I think if the applet sets its status to > AcceptingInput while the text field has focus, it should work. It looks like someone did that at https://phabricator.kde.org/R114:bbd9364c5f4f95d631799e204488b7ca11617ccd, but using the applet with this change doesn't fix the bug and introduces another one. Now the panel won't ever autohide, leaving me stuck with a huge panel covering the right of my screen as I type this.
You also need the following commits of plasma-workspace (in that order) for that change to work: 60ef118c92e4c33b974ec29ee3e567bcc86569bb ed8bf8785977dab6b32025f019e446a71bf70356 f6258fa4ec69243fd638251eafeeb10af5e8c66e
cannot reproduce on Plasma 5.18. I can type in Notes widget. Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0 Qt Version: 5.14.1
Yep, this was fixed with the work to allow panels to accept focus. It's working for me now.