I don't understand why though. It seems like *nothing* gets focus at all, and the tab key can't be used to focus something.
Can confirm. In SubCategoryPage.qml the `subCategoryView.forceActiveFocus();` eats the focus at startup, since subcategory is changed from the list of items instead of the button. Whenever that call is done, the search field never gets focused again (which seems to be another bug, not because of these changes).
Thanks, that was really helpful!
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/systemsettings/-/merge_requests/321
Git commit 8931ccd1f12cabb425c33b7df30d14e96c295d82 by Nate Graham. Committed on 26/06/2024 at 17:39. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Force focus to subcategory page only when actually needed Previously we were forcing focus to it anytime it existed, even if it did not have enough items to become visible. This bug was masked by the previous code, which popped the subcategory column explicitly when showing the intro page. Removing that in ed05004b033950a4715ca7f0085198d2bed5b895 exposed the bug, which is fixed in this commit. M +1 -1 app/qml/SubCategoryPage.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/systemsettings/-/commit/8931ccd1f12cabb425c33b7df30d14e96c295d82