Steps to reproduce: - select any non-text file (e.g. executable) in Dolphin - context menu > Open With > Other Application ... - a "Choose Application" dialog appears, with a line edit focussed - type "kwrite" into the line edit - try to confirm/activate the dialog with the keyboard (e.g. just by hitting Enter, or "OK/Cancel" buttons that you can Tab to, or Cursor+Enter navigation in the icon view) Expected result: - it should be possible to confirm the dialog without a mouse Actual result: - impossible
The problem in your steps is that KWrite isn't automatically selected in the view; you have to to that yourself with the down arrow key or tab key. If we auto-focused stuff in the view, we'd have to remove focus from the search field, and that would be annoying because how would we know when you're finished typing? We could give it *inactive* selection and keep the active focus in the search field, the way Kickoff does. This would speed up the common case where you search for something, narrow the view down to one item, and want to choose it immediately.
Well, Tab didn't work (the icon view seems to be not in the chain), but Down did work. Merci!
I'm working on some improvements here.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/merge_requests/431
And also https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/qqc2-desktop-style/-/merge_requests/482