https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440399

--- Comment #16 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to tomtomtomreportingin from comment #8)
> Well, let's consider realistic scenarios.
> 
> In the case of dropdowns/popup buttons:
> The user isn't likely to set arrow keys to a canvas input. By default there
> is a canvas input using space. When does a user in practice ever want to
> open the blending mode dropdown using space? If such a workflow is very rare
> or does not exist, then if possible, dropdowns should ignore the space key.
> 
> In the case of item selection widgets like the brush presets docker:
> Do users realistically change brush presets by using arrow keys or pressing
> numbers? If not, then maybe such item selection widgets should ignore arrow
> keys and numbers. 
> 
> In the layer docker case that radian mentioned:
> I've only noticed this very recently occuring when you select a layer and
> then press certain keys that correspond to another layer name. For example,
> selecting a layer and then pressing "j" will swap between layers that start
> with "j". It might be an undiscoverable, obscure feature that could be
> removed. 
> 
> In the case of the sliders:
> This one is tricky. I haven't really noticed before that you can just type
> into sliders simply by clicking and then typing. There could maybe be a
> different way to activate input on sliders. A probably radical solution
> would be to replace the canvas-facing spinbox sliders with qslider + spinbox
> combos which wouldn't be impacted much by focus issues.

I would like to propose a fix for the layer blending mode issue: When the user
clicks to select a layer blend mode, move focus away from the blend mode
dropdown. The user has already made a choice and therefore doesn't expect the
keyboard input to change the blend mode.

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