1- Navigate to the restart button with the keyboard. 2- Press Enter. Result: It redirects the focus to the Application Menu.
The shutdown, suspend, and session buttons also don't work.
This is unfortunately something that needs to be implemented in Qt. It's a surprisingly large project — much more than you might imagine.
We special-case this in the menu/runner part of Kicker, so we should do the same for the buttons. For those, only Enter/Return work (space sends a space to the search bar), it makes no sense to have it the other way around for the favorites.
Git commit 3e3837856c18998503283c0d44d8bb60c25dd809 by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 23/06/2025 at 20:09. Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'. applets/kicker: activate favorites on enter/return For menu entries, Space to activate does not work (it sends a space to the search field), only Enter/Return, but for the favorites buttons on the side, only Space works, Enter/Return do nothing. Instead, allow Enter/Return to activate the item as well, so users can use the same keys in all modes. We also switch the implementation to immediately close kicker on activation using the keyboard, like is already done when clicking an item with the mouse; this makes operation feel more responsive. FIXED-IN: 6.4.1 M +8 -1 applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/SideBarItem.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/3e3837856c18998503283c0d44d8bb60c25dd809
Git commit aa54f84bebb84181feda3d7e2d75ecc05dbfc67c by Nate Graham, on behalf of Christoph Wolk. Committed on 26/06/2025 at 13:37. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/6.4'. 🍒applets/kicker: activate favorites on enter/return For menu entries, Space to activate does not work (it sends a space to the search field), only Enter/Return, but for the favorites buttons on the side, only Space works, Enter/Return do nothing. Instead, allow Enter/Return to activate the item as well, so users can use the same keys in all modes. We also switch the implementation to immediately close kicker on activation using the keyboard, like is already done when clicking an item with the mouse; this makes operation feel more responsive. FIXED-IN: 6.4.2 (cherry picked from commit 3e3837856c18998503283c0d44d8bb60c25dd809) Co-authored-by: Christoph Wolk <cwo.kde@posteo.net> M +8 -1 applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/SideBarItem.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/aa54f84bebb84181feda3d7e2d75ecc05dbfc67c
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2) Is a QTBUG tracking that?
Somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.