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Keyboard navigation inside the Notepad text editor
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Tab is a conflicting keyboard shortcut in a text editor. It can either indent text or navigate to the next element.

From that I read online there is a few alternative solutions with no real consensus:

  • Don't let user enter tab with setTabChangesFocus(true) and instead rely of them to just using spaces which is a bit more inconvenient, but at least the navigation inside the app is consistent. This is out of question for code editor but for a plain text editor, it is probably not an issue.

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rKLEOPATRA Kleopatra
rKLEOPATRAac9145d8a1f3 Allow leaving the text input field of the notepad with Tab
rKLEOPATRAc1e0bb0b6c2e Allow leaving the text input field of the notepad with Tab

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CarlSchwan created this task.Oct 30 2024, 11:21 AM
CarlSchwan mentioned this in T5957: Kleopatra: Show recipient information in the Notepad next to the input field .Oct 30 2024, 2:39 PM
• ebo edited projects, added gpd5x; removed Restricted Project.Nov 4 2024, 8:35 AM
• ikloecker triaged this task as High priority.Nov 4 2024, 11:47 AM
• ikloecker added a subscriber: • ikloecker.

High priority since it affects accessibility and was mentioned as problem in the accessibility reports.

• ebo added a parent task: T7412: Notepad improvements.Nov 21 2024, 9:05 AM
• ikloecker claimed this task.Jul 3 2025, 9:09 AM
• ikloecker moved this task from Backlog to WIP on the gpd5x board.
• ikloecker added a commit: rKLEOPATRAc1e0bb0b6c2e: Allow leaving the text input field of the notepad with Tab.Jul 3 2025, 9:33 AM
• ikloecker changed the task status from Open to Testing.Jul 3 2025, 9:42 AM

For simplicity (and because I think entering tab characters isn't really essential for the notepad) I decided to go with the first solution.

All other QTextEdit we use in kleopatra and libkleo are either read-only or also don't allow entering tab characters (e.g. the input field for the reason of revocation).

• ebo moved this task from WIP to QA on the gpd5x board.Jul 14 2025, 5:59 PM
• ikloecker added a project: vsd34.Jul 22 2025, 3:54 PM
• ikloecker added a commit: rKLEOPATRAac9145d8a1f3: Allow leaving the text input field of the notepad with Tab.Jul 22 2025, 3:55 PM
• ikloecker moved this task from Backlog to WIP on the vsd34 board.Jul 22 2025, 3:55 PM

Backported for VSD 3.4

• ebo moved this task from QA to Done on the gpd5x board.EditedJul 23 2025, 1:48 PM
• ebo added a subscriber: • ebo.

tested with Gpg4win-5.0.0-beta345

Leaving the notepad text field with TAB works now. (And leaving moving in the other direction, i.e. backwards, with Shift+TAB works, too.)

• ikloecker mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Mon, Jul 28, 9:59 AM
• ikloecker mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Mon, Jul 28, 4:31 PM