Bug 510146 - The Days/Months/Years Selector Interacts Oddly With Arrow Keys
Summary: The Days/Months/Years Selector Interacts Oddly With Arrow Keys
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Digital Clock widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.4.4
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: accessibility, junior-jobs, usability
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Reported: 2025-10-02 00:21 UTC by isabelle901
Modified: 2025-12-15 22:13 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description isabelle901 2025-10-02 00:21:04 UTC 
SUMMARY
The days/months/years selector interacts oddly with arrow keys, causing inconsistent selection behavior and preventing tab activation with Enter.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open the widget to the main calendar screen. 
2. Press the down arrow once, then the left arrow three times. The cursor should highlight the text in the "Days" tab while also moving the blue selection underline there.
3. From here, pressing the right or left arrow keys will result in the odd behavior.

OBSERVED RESULT
Hitting "Enter" while the blue line highlights a box will not move you there. Occasionally, hitting the enter key will move you to the "Days" page. I have not figured out a way to reproduce this.

EXPECTED RESULT
Hitting enter while selecting a tab will move you to the expected page. Odd intermittent behavior of switching pages will not occur.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: output from uname -a: "Linux archlinux 6.16.4-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:49:53 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux"
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Comment 1 isabelle901 2025-10-02 00:26:36 UTC 
EDIT on line 15:  "move you to the expected page." > "move you to the selected page"
Comment 2 isabelle901 2025-10-02 00:27:21 UTC 
ah and I forgot a period. Of course.
Comment 3 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-10-02 08:37:59 UTC 
Can confirm it's bit odd. 
> The cursor should highlight the text in the "Days" tab while also moving the blue selection underline there.
It first uses focus only, but when moving with arrow keys, it like half-activates the tab.. But instead of pressing "Enter", "Space" key works fine for me for activating it. Does it work for you as well?

Also I can't find a way to focus on the actual calendar elements.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.8-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600
Comment 4 Marco Martin 2025-10-02 11:25:06 UTC 
I confirm enter doesn't work, but spacebar does.
The text underline of the entry seems to occur only when going around with tab/backtab instead of the arrow keys
Comment 5 isabelle901 2025-10-02 15:23:19 UTC 
Yes, space seems to work for me as well.
Comment 6 Sangam 2025-12-15 22:13:55 UTC 
I have submitted a Merge Request to fix this issue: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6103