SUMMARY When pressing Ctrl+L to make the location bar editable, the path is automatically selected and pressing the Tab key moves the focus out of editable location bar, rather than completing the path entry or allowing path entry from the current folder without overwriting the current path. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Press Ctrl+L to start editing the current path. 2. Press the Tab key to "complete" the current path entry. OBSERVED RESULT After pressing Ctrl+L to make the location bar editable, the full path is selected but pressing Tab moves the focus from the location bar. EXPECTED RESULT On pressing Ctrl+L the current path is selected and pressing Tab "completes" the path and allows continued editing of the path. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon 5.19 KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.72.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION It is still possible to use the End key here, but this requires more movement away from the home row when typing than using the Tab key does. My expectation for what happens here comes from previous use of Nautilus for path editing behaviour.
If it did that, how would you move focus away from the text field using the keyboard?
I'd think that the first press of the Tab key would complete the path and a subsequent press of the Tab key would move the focus away from the text field. I will admit from doing a quick test right now that I could foresee an issue with this approach when the focus is moved back into the editable location bar by pressing Shift+Tab. Currently, moving the focus out with Tab and back in by Shift+Tab selects the text of the location and I think it would be a usability issue if someone had to repeatedly double-Tab to move focus back out again. My main aim for something here is being able to start editing the path from the keyboard, keeping close to the home row, however it's probably easier to adapt to using F6 for this, which I also now realise leaves the cursor at the end of the path.
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AFAICS, Tab doesn't invoke the completion; rather you type / or a letter, that invokes the completions, then you use Tab to select one of the offered entries.
I have realized recently that I can actually change the keybindings in Dolphin to switch the shortcut bindings for Editable Location and Replace Location (F6 and Ctrl+L), which I feel resolves the original core issue I had and the default behavior of the Replace Location action is fine.