Same issue as Bug 459269, but affecting the Application Dashboard: 1. Restart plasmashell 2. Open Dashboard widget 3. Type "[compose] e e" Then the search field shows e' instead of é. We should focus it by default.
Oh, this is actually a bit weirder: in the Dashboard, the search field *is* focused by default …except for the very first time the dashboard is shown after boot. So that's the bug here
Weird! I can reproduce that.
I may be doing something wrong, or I may be asserting things based on 6.4 while you are talking about 6.5 where there's a different implementation of the Application Dashboard search functionality - but on my system I can't manage to use compose on the Application Dashboard search regardless of anything.
Several search-related bugs were fixed in 6.5, yes.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3467
Git commit 4ea9f64e64ba20819081fa4fe576a5a45a230558 by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 27/01/2026 at 19:41. Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'. applets/kicker: make kickerdash keyboard navigation work better Keyboard navigation in kickerdash works rather awkwardly; the most noticeable issue is that it's impossible to get to the search field using keyboard shortcuts, or that the search field is not focused by default (while some things forward to it, it's not possible to type some things, such as using the compose key). And there are a bunch of other inconsistencies (in particular for tab navigation, with the search field not being in the tab chain) and older patterns (like forwarding arrow keys to the grid views while maintaining focus elsewhere, which is confusing and tends to break screen reader accessibility). This change makes arrow key navigation work more inutitively, fixes the tab focus behavior, and places default focus on the search field. Related: bug 511146 FIXED-IN: 6.6.0 M +78 -10 applets/kicker/DashboardRepresentation.qml M +4 -0 applets/kicker/ItemMultiGridView.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/4ea9f64e64ba20819081fa4fe576a5a45a230558
Git commit b8b73fae70f2e7da69dbfa0a87bd17cc1dc3f2ee by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 27/01/2026 at 20:26. Pushed by cwo into branch 'Plasma/6.6'. applets/kicker: make kickerdash keyboard navigation work better Keyboard navigation in kickerdash works rather awkwardly; the most noticeable issue is that it's impossible to get to the search field using keyboard shortcuts, or that the search field is not focused by default (while some things forward to it, it's not possible to type some things, such as using the compose key). And there are a bunch of other inconsistencies (in particular for tab navigation, with the search field not being in the tab chain) and older patterns (like forwarding arrow keys to the grid views while maintaining focus elsewhere, which is confusing and tends to break screen reader accessibility). This change makes arrow key navigation work more inutitively, fixes the tab focus behavior, and places default focus on the search field. Related: bug 511146 FIXED-IN: 6.6.0 (cherry picked from commit 4ea9f64e64ba20819081fa4fe576a5a45a230558) Co-authored-by: Christoph Wolk <cwo.kde@posteo.net> M +78 -10 applets/kicker/DashboardRepresentation.qml M +4 -0 applets/kicker/ItemMultiGridView.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/b8b73fae70f2e7da69dbfa0a87bd17cc1dc3f2ee