Bug 163279

Summary:	should be possible to use mouse button for navigating back
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	boski_cinek
Component:	widget-kickoff	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	fred
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description boski_cinek 2008-06-05 16:52:42 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

It should be possible to use mouse button (for example middle, or right) to go back in application list (say Applications->Education->Languages->Education->Applications) instead, or in addition to, of clicking this silly back arrow button (bar?) on the left. Should be *a lot* faster and more comfortable.
If it would be right button there'd a problem with context menu. In that case we should use "Ctrl+Right Mouse Btn", or "Shift+Right Mouse Button" for context menu (should be uncomfortable, because most people (all of them?) don't use context menu to offen).

Comment 1 Peter Paulsen 2008-07-30 14:10:53 UTC

I do use context menus very often (and I hope the kickoff context menu will get some more entries by the time)! I don't want a key+mousebutton combination to use it! Instead I would prefer an entry in the RMB context menu in first place "go back", followed by a line and the add to favorites entry.

Comment 2 Fred Albrecht 2009-11-03 10:42:25 UTC

A binding to the increasingly common "back" button of the mouse would be more useful IMO. 
It's reported (by xev) as button 8 here (with a Logitech G5) while the "forward" button is 9.
Those work by default in Firefox but in very few KDE apps. Of course it's probably easy to make it work in the various customization dialogs (haven't gotten around to do so).

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:29:12 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham