I’ve raved quite a bit about the Virtual Desks feature on Chromebooks. I use them every day and even gave you my tips and tricks for the best way to set them up and name them. However, after spending more time with them, I came to a sad realization – they’re useless if I need to reach up to the top of my keyboard in order to pull them up every five seconds. For someone who separates out all of my open windows into different desks based on the type of task – watching, reading, listening, creating, and more – I find myself swapping between desks extremely often.
Now, this would be fine if clicking on a shelf icon would automatically switch you to the desk where that open app resides, but it doesn’t. Instead, it simply opens a new instance of that app, which is extremely frustrating. Also, considering that there’s a Chrome developer flag that only displays icons on the shelf of the desks where they’re open, the ability to jump to a desk just by clicking an icon wouldn’t even be a long-term solution anyway.
