Bug: Keyboard focus is changed when layout changes automaticlly

[howff]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

When navigating by keyboard, pressing Enter to go into a subdirectory, the keyboard focus jumps to the "New window" icon, but it should remain within the window so that the keyboard can be used to select other files or enter other directories.

Requirements

• Use Files with default settings
• Select folder with images inside and press enter to open the folder via the keyboard
• The layout will quickly change from Details to Grid
• Notice how the focus is removed from the file area and switches to the "new window" button

Files Version

3.8.0.0

Windows Version

Edition Windows 11 Enterprise Version 24H2 Installed on ‎09/‎10/‎2024 OS build 26100.2314 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.32.0

Comments

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[yaira2]

Thank you for the report, I cannot reproduce this in the Details View but there is a known issue that we're tracking regarding the Columns View in #13813. Can you confirm if you're using the Columns View?

[howff]

Browse in Grid View, but actually the setting is to have it choose a View automatically.
Keyboard navigate into a folder which you haven't visited before, and which is mostly images.
It displays the folder in Some Random View (not sure which), then realises it's images and switches to Grid View. At that point the keyboard focus changes to the Tab Actions Menu icon.

[yaira2]

Thank you for clarifying

[yaira2]

I've updated the issue description to reflect this information, can you confirm if it's correct?

[yaira2]

@howff a possible fix was included in preview build v3.9.15, can you please check?
https://files.community/download

[howff]

Hello. Thanks for the update. I haven't used Files at all since I logged this issue because it's broken but since you asked I tried Preview 3.9.16.
I can't confirm the fix, I used the keyboard to enter a folder whose view changed to images but I lost keyboard focus unfortunately.

(This build is full of other bugs, even basic sorting and grouping is totally broken, and it's also reaaallly slooow, so I won't be using Files, sorry)

[yaira2]

Thank you for checking, I'll continue looking into this.

(This build is full of other bugs, even basic sorting and grouping is totally broken, and it's also reaaallly slooow, so I won't be using Files, sorry)

Sorting & grouping are both working on my end, can you please open a new report for this so we can look into it? Even if you aren't able to use Files right now, we'd still like to fix the issues 🙂