1.5-dev: Recolor Selection requires two Escape presses to close popover

Ishaan Arora
2026-03-27T20:10:57Z

#### Summary:

All popovers in Inkscape can be closed by pressing Esc key \[once\]. Recover Selection requires two presses for closing it.

#### Steps to reproduce:

- open Inkscape
- create few objects
- open Fill and Stroke dialog, click on Recolor Selection button
- press Escape once (nothing happens)
- press Escape once more

#### What happened?

![Screencast From 2026-03-28 01-35-09.mp4](/uploads/2f3b2e627a657aee7bc32e72e57549c1/Screencast_From_2026-03-28_01-35-09.mp4)

#### What should have happened?

I should be able to close the Recolor Selection popover by pressing Esc only once.

#### Version info

```
Inkscape 1.5-dev (a28888488f, 2026-03-20)

Compile (Run)
GLib version: 2.84.1
GTK version: 4.18.6 (4.18.6)
glibmm version: 2.83.1
gtkmm version: 4.18.0
libxml2 version: 2.12.10
libxslt version: 1.1.43
Cairo version: 1.18.2 (1.18.2)
Pango version: 1.56.3 (1.56.3)
HarfBuzz version: 10.4.0 (10.4.0)
Poppler version: 25.02.0

OS version: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)
```