https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510327
Bug ID: 510327
Summary: Feature request: add optional shortcut to switch to
last virtual desktop
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version First 6.4.5
Reported In:
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Currently, all shortcuts for switching virtual desktops are either absolute
(you specify which one exactly) or positional (up, right, down, left, previous,
next).
In addition to those, I would like a "history" based switching, i.e. there is a
(optional) shortcut to go to the last virtual desktop.
This would be useful, if you e.g. did not create an internal association of the
contents of each virtual desktop with their individual shortcut, but keep
having to switch back and forth between them. It would make dealing with that
kind of situation easier, by taking over the job of memorising the concrete
desktop you want to switch back to and instead use a dedicated shortcut to
switch to the last desktop.
Concrete example:
You are using four virtual desktops, V1, V2, V3, V4.
You typically work on V1, however currently you are doing some side-task on V2.
Related to this side-task, you switch to V3 to perform some sub-task. However,
while you are processing this side-task, V4 requires your immediate attention,
so you switch to V4. Once resolved, you want to get back to your tasks. So,
which one was it? V1, V2 or V3? You might out of habit go to V1. Or you
remember that you were working on a side task on V2 (even though you were not
done with V3). Or (typically what I do) you just kind of guess/check on which
desktop you were last working on, resulting in many (unnecessary) virtual
desktop switches.
If I had the option to simply go back in my virtual desktop history, then using
my configured shortcut, it would have switched me back to V3. Then, once I
completed the sub-task on V3, I can use the shortcut once again to return to
V2.
While this mainly describes a "Go to last desktop" shortcut, you could consider
the complementary "Go to forward desktop" (could not think of a better
description), to switch "forward" to the virtual desktop, from which you just
switched back using the "Go to last desktop" shortcut.
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