Keyboard focus improvements for font features/axes #23941

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opened 2026-01-31 08:56:51 +00:00 by claunia · 1 comment
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Originally created by @carlos-zamora on GitHub (Jan 6, 2026).

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Adding an item is generally done by clicking the "add new" button and selecting an item from the flyout. However, when you do this from the keyboard, it feels a little weird. Your focus stays on the add new button.

Ideally, it would move to the newly added item.

This is particularly bad if the user added the last feature/axes. Since that disables the add new button, the button can't be focused, so it gets yeeted to the tab row.

Originally created by @carlos-zamora on GitHub (Jan 6, 2026). <img width="1021" height="381" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/13daafdf-81b1-41f7-98f9-4fd720edf81b" /> Adding an item is generally done by clicking the "add new" button and selecting an item from the flyout. However, when you do this from the keyboard, it feels a little weird. Your focus _stays_ on the add new button. Ideally, it would move to the newly added item. This is particularly bad if the user added the last feature/axes. Since that disables the add new button, the button can't be focused, so it gets yeeted to the tab row.
claunia added the Help WantedNeeds-Tag-FixProduct-TerminalArea-UserInterface labels 2026-01-31 08:56:52 +00:00
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@enderpearl7 commented on GitHub (Jan 25, 2026):

I’m planning to work on this.
I’m investigating where focus is managed after adding a new item and will propose a fix to move focus to the newly created element for keyboard users.

@enderpearl7 commented on GitHub (Jan 25, 2026): I’m planning to work on this. I’m investigating where focus is managed after adding a new item and will propose a fix to move focus to the newly created element for keyboard users.
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Reference: starred/terminal#23941