1865025 - It's impossible to open a file when searching without mouse.

Status: RESOLVED MOVED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, enhancement)

Description

[gonsolo]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a file "bla" with some text.
2. Try to open it just with the keyboard an no mouse by hitting Ctrl-O.
3. In the file browser type "bla" to start a search. Only my file is listed now.
4. Try to select it by pressing the ⬇️ button; selection jumps to "open files write protected". It's not possible to select the file with that button.
5. Try by pressing tab 2 times; the file is not selected but can't be opened by pressing enter.

Actual results:

I'm unable to open the file with the keyboard without using the mouse.

Expected results:

By using the arrow or tab buttons the file should be selectable, and when selected it should be possible to open it by hitting enter.

Comment 1

[gonsolo]

Also, the User Agent is wrong: I'm running Wayland, not X11.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

File browser is provided by underlying system, notably by Gtk3 or portal. Which DE do you run and can you attach a screenshot of the file picker?
Thanks.

Comment 4

[gonsolo]

Attachment: bla.png

Comment 5

[gonsolo]

By DE you mean Desktop Environment? That would be gnome and gtk under Wayland on Ubuntu.

Comment 6

[gonsolo]

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6212

Comment 7

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

Yes, better to report at gtk.

Comment 8

[gonsolo]

For the record: It works, albeit with a strange key combination.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6212#note_1918825