Should we be able to focus the entire tree?

[kid-icarus]

Some odd behavior I noticed was that, say I have a large tree that is mostly empty, if I click outside of any nodes in the tree, and then hit shift, the entire tree is focused. Is this behavior supported for any specific reason? It feels a little unintuitive because, if I actually blur away from the tree, and then click back into anywhere in the tree, and hit shift, the correct item is focused. This odd behavior becomes more pronounce when trying to multi-select via shift.

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[jameskerr]

I need to think this through again. The reason had to do with keyboard navigation. If the tree has focus, you use the up and down arrows to change focus, not tab. Tab should take you to the next focusable item other than the tree. But sometimes you'd like to tab around within the focused node. This would happen if you have some action buttons on a node. Tricky.

What could be improved though in your case? Do you think if you click on the tree, the node should get the focus again? That makes sense to me.

[kid-icarus]

Do you think if you click on the tree, the node should get the focus again?

Yep, I think that feels the most intuitive