Feature Request: Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down to switch to next conversation

[He-Ro]

As far as I know, one can only change the conversation by clicking on the conversation in the list.
It would be awesome to be able to do this with a keyboard shortcut as well.
Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab are common ways to switch tabs in a browser.
As the conversations can be seen as tabs, I would suggest adopting those shortcuts.
Going to the next open conversation in the list with Ctrl+Tab
Going to the previous conversation in the list with Ctrl+Shift+Tab.
Currently those shortcuts do nothing.

Version 0.1.3 (I do not know how to update, maybe another issue)
Arch Linux
Edit: Signal just updated and this is still the case in Version 0.1.4
Edit 2: Adjusted title. See comment below.

[He-Ro]

Okay, it seems like extensions are not allowed to grab certain key combinations.
Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab seem to be two of them https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/commands.
Please correct me if this is not the case.

Another idea would be to use Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down.
But I do not know, if those shortcuts would be limited to the signal app or the whole chrome browser would react to them.

[mammuth]

[I commented wrong information, sorry]

[pmalek]

I would love this feature as well ( to be able to switch between conversations on some predefined hotkey combination)

[cwmke]

I would suggest Alt+1, Alt+2, Alt+3, for quick switching between conversations as well as Alt+Up, Alt+Down for going between above and below conversations. I like Alt because that's the same key combination for selecting individual tabs in the main browser as well.

Allowing users to set custom ones would be wonderful as well. :-)

[mc-suchecki]

Telegram Desktop and Microsoft Outlook are both using Alt+Arrows for switching conversations/mails.

[erickrawczyk]

Slack and Facebook Messenger also use alt+↑ and alt+↓ to switch between conversation threads (on mac at least). Would love to have those in Signal Desktop too.

[fourstepper]

It seems that alt+arrows works, it would also be great if alt+number and/or alt+j/k (for vim) worked

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[He-Ro]

I just checked and Ctrl + Tab respectively Ctrl + Shift + Tab and Alt + Up / Down can now be used to change conversations. So I'll close this issue.

Thanks to the maintainer team!