[kde-ui] next button does not respond to keyboard

[Richard Green]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Installing Kubuntu Feisty Beta daily build 20070404, Step 5 of 6. After filling out the form uning the keyboard, I tab until the 'Next' button is hilighted (actually outlined by a dashed box), and hit enter. Nothing happens. I am forced to move my hands to the mouse, hover the cursor over that button, and click the left button. Then it proceeds forward...

I saw several other bugs reporting strange behaviour with the next button, but they all referred to an upstream GTK issue, and had to do with a mouse click not being noticed if the cursor just happened to be hovering over a button when a dialog window opens. There was also a mention that the kubuntu version of the installer uses libqt, not GTK.

WORKAROUND:

The buttons can be pushed with the space key instead of the enter key.

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Thanks for reporting this problem.

This was reported on a Feisty Beta release. Could you please advise if the same problem also occurs on the feisty and/or gutsy final releases?

Thanks

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

I tested this issue with the Hardy-Alpha1 Kubuntu Live-CD and can confirm the behaviour described. The "enter" key will not trigger the button that is selected via tab. However, the space key does trigger it.

The workaround is to use the space key. Obviously for more user-friendliness the "enter"-key should have the same effect.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

This is not a bug, but the way buttons behave (buttons and check boxes are usually actioned with the space key and no the enter key).

However, I agree that it would make sense to allow the usage of the enter key for this, specially in the installer, which should be as user friendly as possible.