https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441412
Bug ID: 441412
Summary: Application Launcher focus not working as expected
Product: frameworks-plasma
Version: 5.85.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: components
Assignee: notm...@gmail.com
Reporter: k...@jbev.net
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
When clicking the menu button on the desktop panel or pressing the Windows key,
the application launcher opens with the search field focused (so far everything
as expected).
Without typing anything, the first entry in my list of favourites is marked
with a selection border (even though the actual focus is in the search field),
so I would expect that entry to be executed when I simply hit Enter, but that
doesn't happen. I first have to move the focus over to the icons panel, so it's
either "Left Arrow + Enter" (whereas "Up Arrow + Enter" unintuitively messes
with the categories) or "Enter + Enter", which is confusing and annoying.
This focusing behaviour gets even more annoying for search results. Here a
single Enter stroke already launches the selected application (which is good),
but sometimes the search is quite dumb and doesn't select the desired app first
(and apparently doesn't remember previous searches either). One example would
be "Discord" and "Discover". When I type "dis", "Discover" is always the entry
that gets selected first (but is literally never the one I want), so I either
have to spell out the whole name or simply select the entry above it, which is
"Discord". However, to select it, I have to tap the Up Arrow key twice: Once
for selecting the results panel and one more time for changing the selection
before I can press Enter. This way, my muscle memory trained on other platforms
has more than once launched "Discover" instead of "Discord".
STEPS TO REPRODUCE (scenario 1)
1. Launch application menu
2. Press enter to launch pre-selected app from favourites panel
3. Get frustrated
STEPS TO REPRODUCE (scenario 2)
1. Launch application menu
2. Type something
3. Try to select result above pre-selected entry by pressing up-arrow
OBSERVED RESULT
App favourites or search results panel needs to be selected explicitly before
keyboard can interact with it.
EXPECTED RESULT
Results panel shouldn't have separate focus.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 21.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85
Qt Version: 5.15.2
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