https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419499

--- Comment #17 from Aldoo <aldo-pub...@laposte.net> ---
An update (plasma 6.2).

As things stand, activity switching is still unpractical (and seemingly mostly
the same as 4 years ago).

Basically there are 2 pairs of shortcuts to navigate activities: 
- (1) switch to previous/next activity. The order is fixed and apparently
alphabetical.
- (2) "browse" activities forward and backward. The order is most recently used
first.

What I would like is a behavior similar to the classical Alt+Tab that is used
to browse windows, which is also MRU order, but in a different way.

The difference between window browsing and activity browsing (2)? 
For windows, the order is not updated until you release the Alt key. This makes
it possible to keep Alt pressed and press several times Tab while browsing
*all* windows until you find the one you are looking for. On the contrary, if
you browse activities, setting a similar mod+Tab as a shortcut, even if you
keep the mod pressed, the MRU order is updated each time you press Tab,
implying you basically cycle only between the 2 most recent activities.

This is not really a bug, since shortcuts are supposed to trigger an action,
without a notion of a "half" pressed shortcut (like the key Alt alone, in the
case of window browsing), so current behavior makes sense in the most generic
setting of shortcut handling. Nonetheless, the behavior I request also makes a
lot of sense and is quite what anybody used to Alt-Tab browsing would expect.

Also, the same behavior would be nice for virtual desktop switching (I thought
it was already there, but I cannot find how to mimic alt-tab switching for
virtual desktops in 6.2).

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