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Draft: Moving focus between panels should ignore windows

Akseli Lahtinen requested to merge work/akselmo/plasma-panel-cycle into master

First, I had used this MR as a bugfix, but I wanted to propose this separate change.

Due to the naming scheme used for the shortcut that launches this behavior, Move keyboard focus between panels, I assumed the shortcut activating windows was a bug. I learned this is not the case.

My proposal is that the shortcut should only do what it says: Move keyboard focus between panels. I don't think it should activate any windows. User can do that with Walk through windows shortcut. Also, if user selects a panel with taskbar, user can use the keyboard navigation to switch back to the window they were on.

Alternatively, we should change the Move keyboard focus between panels text to something that describes what the shortcut does.

Opinions?

To add, I don't feel super strongly about this personally, but I am thinking of the potential accessibility related usecases, where things are explicitly named after what they do to avoid confusion. 😄

Edited by Akseli Lahtinen

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