Use case or problem
I go through my list of plugins (Community plugins), open the options (gear button), check them, sometimes edit them, then I want to go back to the list of plugins so I can:
- see the version of the plugin
- click on the + button to change hotkeys
- disable the plugin
- check other plugins, maybe enable them, repeat
On the left sidebar I can check the list of plugins enabled that have at least one option, but that is not the same as displaying all plugins (even disabled ones) and it doesn’t show the version of each plugin either.
Proposed solution
On a given plugin options window, add a button to go back to Community plugins list.
It could also be mapped to a shortcut like backspace (when no text field is focused) or mouse button backward. I thought about Escape but apparently Option is not considered like a new window on top of the stack and so Escape simply closes the window (reason may be that you can also access a plugin’s options via left sidebar in which case there was no previous window = Community plugins/
Current workaround (optional)
Click on left side bar > Options > Community plugins yourself every time
Related feature requests (optional)
I only found this one:
which has been closed and merged into this one:
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/a-button-to-go-back-to-plugin-documentation-from-plugin-options/42809
which is a dead link (it’s very odd to merge an issue into a “canonical” one only to close the latter).
I could only find a web archive for that old issue:
which is indeed the same idea, and even has a few interesting ideas like support Back/Forward navigation across all settings (via window button or mouse button) that you may want to check.