SUMMARY Entering the Search widget with the TAB key results in keyboard cursor trapping STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add a "Search" widget to your desktop, together with another widget, such as "Clipboard history". 2. Enter your desktop (Press META+D) 3. Use the TABV key to navigate the widgets. OBSERVED RESULT Entering the search widget field makes it impossible to exit it to get to another widget - the Tab key does not work EXPECTED RESULT The tab key should get out of the widget's search field and navigate to other elements on desktop SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 43 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.16.0-0.rc3.250627g67a993863163.35.fc43.aarch64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.7 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: llvmpipe Manufacturer: Parallels International GmbH. Product Name: Parallels ARM Virtual Machine System Version: 0.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I am using the Orca screenreader
I can reproduce, but only when there are results, the culript seems the result view that newver wants to lose focus
hmm, actually scratch that, focus does come out of the result view and i can get the clipboard history search field focused with just tab. tab order of the various things is a bit questionable perhaps, but doesn't get stuck, neither with tab nor backtab
perhaps something interacting in Parallels?
The issue happens when focus is in the search field; in there, Tab doesn't move elsewhere. If focus is on a search result, it works. However I'm downgrading the priority since there's an easy workaround and these widgets aren't on the desktop by default.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/milou/-/merge_requests/101
Git commit f4ec61ecb8b97726192c979a2faaecdeff31a427 by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 05/02/2026 at 14:50. Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'. plasmoid: make tab focus work as desktop widget When the Search widget is used on the desktop, pressing tab does not move focus properly if there are no search results. The problem is that tab still tries to give focus to the ResultsView, which has custom Tab key handling that end up swallowing the event in this case. We can avoid this by removing the ResultsView from the tab chain if empty, but this is not a full fix - the forwarding key events from the search field to the ResultsView that is still active now causes Backtab to be stuck instead. So we remove it from the tab chain and also disable the key forwarding if there are no search results. We also move the forwarding itself from the SearchField component to the plasmoid, as that reduces coupling and makes the linter happy. FIXED-IN: 6.6.0 M +0 -1 plasmoid/SearchField.qml M +2 -0 plasmoid/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/milou/-/commit/f4ec61ecb8b97726192c979a2faaecdeff31a427
Git commit a364b156943c7fe2cb2327bd835b5af9208b01ad by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 05/02/2026 at 15:01. Pushed by cwo into branch 'Plasma/6.6'. plasmoid: make tab focus work as desktop widget When the Search widget is used on the desktop, pressing tab does not move focus properly if there are no search results. The problem is that tab still tries to give focus to the ResultsView, which has custom Tab key handling that end up swallowing the event in this case. We can avoid this by removing the ResultsView from the tab chain if empty, but this is not a full fix - the forwarding key events from the search field to the ResultsView that is still active now causes Backtab to be stuck instead. So we remove it from the tab chain and also disable the key forwarding if there are no search results. We also move the forwarding itself from the SearchField component to the plasmoid, as that reduces coupling and makes the linter happy. FIXED-IN: 6.6.0 (cherry picked from commit f4ec61ecb8b97726192c979a2faaecdeff31a427) Co-authored-by: Christoph Wolk <cwo.kde@posteo.net> M +0 -1 plasmoid/SearchField.qml M +2 -0 plasmoid/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/milou/-/commit/a364b156943c7fe2cb2327bd835b5af9208b01ad