I don’t need any fancy tiling window managers. One fullscreen window per desktop, and 12 virtual desktops, that was my workflow for 10 years. Then I incorporated KDE activities into my workflow, which are exactly like virtual desktops but switched with Meta-Tab not with Ctrl-F1 - Ctrl-F12. Wonderful!
And then, Plasma devs broke it. Switching activities now puts my foreground fullscreen window (one per desktop) into background, and switches keyboard focus to the desktop. Give me back my keyboard shortcuts, and you could also rename Plasma back to KDE while you’re at it, thank you very much.
At least there is a bug opened, but it’s doubtful that Plasma devs will fix it before Debian 13 release. I can’t even find motivation to update my OS anymore.
I hope this can be fixed so you can go back to your usual workflow. That said this community is not focused purely on tiling, floating window managers are welcome, personally I used Labwc for some long time and the only thing deterring me from using it was the lack of support for workspace indicator for Waybar. So if you ever feel like there is something new with kwin you can share it here.
The bug says one needs to have the “Slide Back” effect enabled. Do you have that enabled? Can you not just disable that? It’s in the “Desktop Effects” section of the System Settings.
The wrong focus happens with and without all desktop effects enabled, they just grouped all issues into one bug.
