Tested with Gpg4win-4.3.2-beta25:

Now there is always the first result selected. My request was to preselect only if there is exactly one search result. I don't think it is appropriate to preselect a random certificate, people might think this implies it is the best result.

This might be ok if we could apply some sensible indicators to predict which key is probably the one we want. Maybe it would be ok to preselect the one from WKD. But probably not when you have an AD configured? So I would not preselect anything if there is more than one result.

That the first result is selected is a side effect of making the certificate list more accessible. When the lookup finished, then the certificate list gets focus so that the users can immediately interact with the result. When the list gets focus we unset and reset the current item which triggers the selection of the item. And that triggers an accessible event (so that the user knows than a list item was/is selected).

I'm wondering why this issue was written at all because the first item should have been selected since a long time.

Testing with various versions of kleopatra, I'm getting differing results:

• on existing gpg4win (without this patch), nothing is selected at all when searching, so this ticket makes sense
• on linux (qt6) and gpg4win-qt6, when there are multiple results, the first result has "keyboard focus" (the line shows visual focus, but the import button is disabled). When there is only one certificate, it is selected. This is my understanding of what @ebo wants.
• on current gpg4win beta, the first certificate is always selected, no matter how many certs are found

No idea where the difference for multiple certificates with and without this patch comes from (some other commit?), but it doesn't seem to be caused by this commit.

We should determine what exactly we want, then I can look into making sure that it works as planned everywhere.

As I wrote "That the first result is selected is a side effect of making the certificate list more accessible." and "When the lookup finished, then the certificate list gets focus so that the users can immediately interact with the result."

So, the only way to prevent the selection of one of the results is to give the input focus to some other UI element than the result list. I think this would reduce the usability/accessibility. Currently, the user gets immediate feedback when the search is done by reading the first result.

In Kleopatra master the first result is no longer selected if there are multiple certificates.

ok, with gpg4win-Beta-50, a search result is only selected and highlighted if it is the only result.