Bug 501872

Summary:	Allow ctrl+tab switching to cycle over most recently used tabs, like Kate
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	John Veness <john.kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	dolphin-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	24.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description John Veness 2025-03-22 17:18:44 UTC

SUMMARY
When you have a lot of tabs open, it would be helpful if a single ctrl+tab keyboard action would change to the last used tab rather than (as currently) the tab to the right. A popup like Kate uses for ctrl+tab would be perfect. Ctrl+pageup and ctrl+pagedown would continue to be available to change tabs in tab order.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Dolphin
2. Open many tabs
3. Click on tab 5
4. Click on tab 2
5. Press ctrl+tab

OBSERVED RESULT
Tab 3 is activated.

EXPECTED RESULT
Tab 5 is activated.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250320
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.6-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
It would be nice if this could be standardised over all KDE apps, so maybe this could be implemented at a framework level. Kate works as desired. Konsole sort of does, although it doesn't show the popup selector that Kate shows (instead, it immediately changes to the tab, but at least it does so in most recently used order). Dolphin and Okular (when the latter has been configured to open new files in tabs) always use tab order for ctrl-tab. I haven't checked other tab-using KDE apps.