Created attachment 149353 [details] Panel focus SUMMARY Focusing elements with arrows behaves a bit strange: some elements like a Pager get focused twice, and some — like Minimize all Windows — don't get a focus ring at all. See the video where I focus the panel, and press Right key repeatedly. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 0. Make sure you have at least two rows of Virtual Desktops. Add a Pager and Minimize all Windows applets to the panel. 1. Focus a panel with Meta+Alt+P shortcut 2. Press Right key repeatedly OBSERVED RESULT First, Pager gets focus 4 times in a row (sorry for the pun), two of which look like a glitch, because they iterate over the applet twice without any visual clue why is that happening. Turned out, it's just a second/bottom row desktops getting focus after the first/top row ones. Some selection ring would help to distinguish. Unfortunately, many many applets suffer from poor keyboard navigation, so this is part of a bigger problem here. Second, Minimize all Windows is not focusable in this way at all. Focus just wraps to the first applet on the left instead. EXPECTED RESULT Pager should show some visual clues which desktop is currently focused, especially when there are two or more rows. Minimize all Windows applet should be focusable with a keyboard the same way other applets are. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0 Qt Version: 5.15.4 Kernel Version: 5.18.0-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M/PCIe/SSE2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For an experiment, I moved the Minimize all Windows applet to the middle of a panel, to mitigate the risk of "edge case" / off-by-one / "≤ vs. <" kind of error. It is still not focusable, so something is definitely wrong with the applet itself, not the panel.
Apps need to opt into receiving focus. Minimize All Windows probably hasn't.
> Apps need to opt into receiving focus. Minimize All Windows probably hasn't. Technically speaking, how? I don't see anything related to focus management in appletinterface.cpp
(In reply to ratijas from comment #2) > > Apps need to opt into receiving focus. Minimize All Windows probably hasn't. > > Technically speaking, how? I don't see anything related to focus management > in appletinterface.cpp Check out the MouseArea in the Show Desktop widget. That's how it's implemented. Commit 15ee61c8fae2ad494458ff2a7ee0a21db5e58fb3in plasma-desktop may also be illuminating. Let's use this bug report to track the issue with the Pager, which I can reproduce. We should track the Minimize All applet needing focus support in a separate bug report (or preferably just an MR< since it's pretty simple to implement.
Speaking of the original title of this bug report… > Keyboard focus (Meta+Alt+P) does not focus over some applets
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/986
Git commit 152d00d7768e83ae28aa9ac4ffc10784bf94bc17 by ivan tkachenko. Committed on 18/06/2022 at 13:33. Pushed by ratijas into branch 'master'. Sync/unify minimizeall & showdesktop applets, add support for keyboard navigation This turns out to be quite a refactoring, but in the end we get a flattened component hierarchy, consistent structure and behavior, and of course the keyboard navigation (Meta+Alt+P). For feature parity, minimizeall applet now also have a parity action from its sister-applet. M +89 -66 applets/minimizeall/package/contents/ui/main.qml M +96 -104 applets/showdesktop/package/contents/ui/main.qml M +8 -0 applets/showdesktop/plugin/showdesktop.cpp M +1 -0 applets/showdesktop/plugin/showdesktop.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/152d00d7768e83ae28aa9ac4ffc10784bf94bc17