Win key + Arrow keys vs Multiple Monitors: Issue on?sight?

Context

As you probably know, the use of keyboards can rose the productivity of those who depend on a personal computer to work. And that′s why most of the systems' financial and management systems had them implemented. Speed is the key to many professionals in those areas. Also, with the need of making personal programs accessible, not only to an audible response but an easy input, good softwares are making the use of the keyboard in their design a priority.

With that in mind, the issue that I’m talking about involves the use of the shortcut to adjust the app on the screens (my favorite) and their behavior to the use of multiple monitors and I think that I found an issue. I am using a Microsoft Windows 10 (last update as 10.25.2020)

Let’s go further on why I want your opinion and why I think this is important. Off the bat, the reason affects any behavior decision regarding keyboard use.

Most features work without trouble when used alone

When planning a feature, a good way to prevent issues is not only to think in different kinds of inputs, the environment, or even to verify how features impact each other. It also fundamental to combine their use (in the integration phase) in their main and alternative flows. That can reveal some interesting behaviors, that will reveal to be issues of improvements and even require critical implementations and business decisions.

To only consider the fundamental indicator of how to proceed is important to consider at least for variables: Environment setup, Input type, Flow type, and Comparison.

Those four would help in the initial phases of the decision, but more indicators find through researches, inceptions, and data analysis will be considered. For now, let restrict ourselves.

Shortcuts vs Multiple Monitors

When alone, the features that I am combining are working perfectly. The first, as I said, is the shortcut win + arrows and the second is the use of multiple monitors

I use the short win + arrow keys to better organize the apps that I use in a fast way. Mainly to put the app that I′m verifying next to a performance monitor or log report or even to take down some notes on docs.google or note++.

It works in the same way as the mouse does to drag a window, but much faster. When using two monitors, It′s easy to organize for 4 apps with each one using a quarter of the total display in less than 3s.

Like most people at my previous work (like 95% of them) my work I had my desk layout with them side by side. “Had” because I′ve decided to put them at top of each other.

Issue (?)

And finally, comes what I think that it′s a Windows bug or improvement opportunity (because I believe that they have a particularly good reason to not have that implemented)

The thing is that different of the mouse use, where are we can directly drag the app from the bottom display to the above screen and the way around, is NOT POSSIBLE to do the same with the shortcut Win + Arrow Up or Arrow Down. It is achievable tough, but only Win Key + Arrows Left or Right can to the job

To most people, this would not be a problem, since the use of more than two monitors is limited, at the top of my head, to designers or room controls (analytics here). And guys like me would probably group that use could be, but not to pop up the question of why?

Issue description


Steps to reproduce

1.From Windows, execute an application (ex: Notepad) and set it to be displayed on Monitor 1
2.Using keyboard press Win key + Arrow Up 
3.Still from keyboard, press Win Key + Arrow Left enough times to display Notepad on the Monitor 2

Actual Result

1.No action is taken
2.Notepad is displayed on Monitor 2 

Excepted Result (I think)

1./2.Notepad could be displayed on Monitor 2 

Additional Information

.Monitor 1 is set to the location beneath 
.Monitor 2 is set to the Above position

Reference

.Mouse behavior 

Is that a bug for you?

So, to this matter

I want to know what you think about this behavior. And bellow you can find the variables that I used.

• Feature setup: Two monitors. Top of each other. Main Monitor 1 bellow
• Input: Keyboard Shortcut
• Flow Type: Main flow (both features)
• Comparison: Mouse drag and drop

Feel free to comment on your thoughts because can be an interesting reference to future implementations and have wider perspectives from different business domains would be nice.