Bug 405600 - Click to cycle grouped windows (window switching)
Summary: Click to cycle grouped windows (window switching)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 370258
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Icons-only Task Manager (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Kubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
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Reported: 2019-03-18 14:34 UTC by leftcrane
Modified: 2019-03-18 23:21 UTC (History)
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Description leftcrane 2019-03-18 14:34:19 UTC
This is the standard behavior of Gnome Dash to Dock and Dash to Panel, and it is also available on Windows (registry setting) and through Latte Dock. 

Currently, if you left-click on icon that represents more than one window (grouped windows), you are presented with full-screen overview of all the windows. This is bad for a couple reasons:

- The windows overview suffers from an issue wherein the thumbnails are hard to see due to the darkening effect. This makes the overview virtually unusable, at least for me. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385522
- After clicking on an group icon, you have to move your mouse to a totally different area of the screen. This could be a huge distance, especially for touchpads.

I therefore propose adding click to cycle-grouped as an option, preferably by default. This behavior is both more efficient and more standard than the current one. 

So to get to the second window in a group you'd just have to single-click (if a window in the group is already active) or double-click. Much faster than the current behavior.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-03-18 23:21:37 UTC
Yep, I want this too and plan to implement it as a part of what's requested in Bug 370258.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 370258 ***