Bug 446800

Summary:	Feature Request: Please add a functionality for selecting multiple windows in the task manager
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Marcel <misterx.mi66>
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	misterx.mi66, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Marcel 2021-12-10 19:30:12 UTC

Dear KDE developers,

when using plasma I often find myself in a situation where I want to close multiple windows or move them to a different virtual desktop using the task manager at once. (note: I refer to the non-icon-only task manager)
Unfortunately I have not found a way to achieve this.

Therefore I propose to add the ability of Ctrl+clicking multiple windows in the task manager for selecting them (like one can select multiple files in dolphin using this shortcut) and make it possible to right click the selection for then using a tooltip to choose an action to be performed on those windows (e.g. close, move to virtual desktop / activity).

I believe that I am not the only one whose workflow would be improved by this feature.

Thanks

Marcel

P.S.: If this functionality already exists, it would be nice if someone could tell me the shortcut or how to enable it.

SYSTEM INFORMATION
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.15.7-1-siduction-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-01-23 06:10:02 UTC

The Task Manager doesn't really have any kind of selection model or UI at all, so I think bolting this onto it would be quite strange. No can do, sorry.

Comment 2 Marcel 2022-01-25 18:41:32 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> The Task Manager doesn't really have any kind of selection model or UI at
> all, so I think bolting this onto it would be quite strange. No can do,
> sorry.

That's unfortunate but understandable.

My thought was that because the task manager already allowed closing multiple windows of one program (if they are grouped) it would be easy to extend this onto arbitrary windows. Of course I did not think about the need to implement a selection model for this :-/

(Nevertheless I think that being able to select and close multiple windows at once is a useful feature. Maybe it would be a suitable feature for the new overview effect....)

Have a nice day

Marcel