Bug 296092

Summary:	Walk Through Windows (Alt-Tab) walks through tabs
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Jozef Šiška <yoyo>
Component:	tabbox	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	EssL.main, xaver.hugl
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Jozef Šiška 2012-03-15 18:46:30 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.54 Safari/535.19
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Alt-Tab switches also through individual tabs. Tabbed windows should be however handled as a single window. Note that the Present Windows effect shows them correctly (one window per group / tabs) if invoked through hotkey or screen edge, but not when set as the alt-tab effect.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Group at least 2 windows to have a window with tabs
2. Pres Alt-Tab (or whatever is Walk Through Windows)
Actual Results:  
Swithches also through all the tabs

Expected Results:  
Should switch only windows (ie groups)

Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2012-08-25 12:18:34 UTC

Not sure whether this is reasonable.
In doubt we'll need a "one by tab" setting similar to the "one by app"

Comment 2 Jozef Šiška 2012-09-24 20:45:53 UTC

The main reason (for me) for tabbing windows together is to make them behave like a single window, especially when switching between windows (ie  "Walk Through Windows" switches between windows, "Walk through Tabs" switches between tabs in active window).

Comment 3 EssL 2014-10-27 10:46:02 UTC

I agree, the whole point of tabbing is to group different windows to behave like one, for example if I open three IDE windows (different applications) I don't want to jump to a different project when I press alt-tab (this is what happens now), when I want to switch tab I'll press the relevant hotkey...
The same with taskers, I grouped the windows why do I keep seeing all of them in the kicker?
"Only one per application flag" helps except the kicker issue...

Comment 4 Zamundaaa 2023-05-07 13:08:31 UTC

The window tabbing feature is no longer a thing