#1 - Create New drop-down menu
When right-clicking, I would prefer if the user didn’t have to hover over ‘Create New’ to make the drop-down menu appear in order to create folders and text files. Instead, ‘Create New Folder’ and ‘Create New Text File’ should be readily available after right-clicking.
I also find it annoying that you have to name the folder/file before it can be created.
These are minor complaints and I understand if others might feel differently.
#2 - Vague icon highlighting
When you are on the desktop and right-click to create a new folder or file, the newly created icon will be highlighted in blue. Thinking this folder/file is being selected, pressing enter surprisingly does nothing. You still have to click the icon, which will turn it a darker shade of blue, before it can be opened with enter.
#3 - Sluggishness
I thought I had it bad after “upgrading” from Windows 10 to 11. Using Plasma is a whole different level of slow and sluggish. Opening an empty text file takes almost a full second while the process would be near instant on Windows. Opening a window of more demanding software can take 2-3 seconds.
I find it unacceptable.
#4 - Drag followed by shift+drag bug
Take a file or folder on the desktop, drag it from point A to point B. Now hold down the shift key and try to drag it to an arbitrary point C. It will immediately jump back to point A instead of continuing from its position in point B.
For those unaware: holding down shift while moving a file to a different folder prevents the annoying pop-up, that asks you what you want to do with the file, from appearing.
#5 - Mute button appearing on tasks playing audio
This is thankfully easy to disable, but I don’t think it should be enabled by default. Before disabling this feature, I kept muting the audio accidentally while trying to open and minimize tasks.
#6 - Icons in the Task Manager being unresponsive to right-click
If you take turns right-clicking the icon on the taskbar (“Task Manager”) and then left-clicking somewhere else, every other right-click will fail to open the menu.
It might sound like a fringe issue, but it is constantly happening during regular use and it contributes to the feeling of Plasma being buggy and sluggish.
Shortly before making this post, I discovered a similar issue with icons on the desktop, which I’m not entirely sure how to replicate.
#7 - Fragmented Task Manager options
To get the Task Manager to look the way I wanted, I had to open 4 different configurations windows:
- Configure Icons-and-Text Task Manager (accessed by right-clicking Task Manager)
- Show Alternatives (accessed by right-clicking Task Manager)
- Show Panel Configuration (accessed by right-clicking Task Manager)
- Colors & Themes (accessed from System Settings)
I understand that the Colors & Themes must be separated from the rest, but I fail to understand why the first 3 are scattered across 3 different settings menus.
#8 - Not being able to save error logs
Error logs can’t be copy-pasted or saved as a file. There’s no good reason for this.
