For some time now, it has no longer been possible to drag and drop a file / folder from a Dolphin window opened on the desktop directly onto the desktop. The context menu no longer appears when the file is released.
I’m currently using Plasma 6.3.6 with Wayland, but the problem has been going on for several months. Both on Manjaro and Arch.
It’s a known bug that should have been backported by now. I don’t seem to have the issue on Fedora 42 using KDE framework 6.16.0
thx @anon11428787, then I’ll wait for a fix.
Seems to still be hit or miss. Was still having the issue in BlueStar with Framework 6.16.0 and just tested again and I got the menu once and not again on subiquint tries to drag to the desktop.
You’re right. Just tested again myself and have the same issue. Worked the first few times I did it, but now it’s not dropping any files at all. Guess we wait until 6.17 is pushed.
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.6-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 16.1 GB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Product Name: B550M Steel Legend
I have experienced this at one time but was able to completely get past it by running prestart (see below). It was a weird experience, I only ever noticed it one time when answering a post about it 2 weeks ago…
The fact that you experience this on Arch and Manjaro is interesting, as they’re using completely different flavours of Plasma.
If you’d checked this in the Manjaro forum … you’d see that on the odd occasion Plasma glitched for me, I use krunner to launch my ‘plasma restart’.
cat << 'EOF' > prestart
#!/usr/bin/env bash
systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service
EOF
chmod +x that… execute via krunner, or bind to a keyboard shortcut.
So if anything like this fails for me, I do ‘prestart’ and then do it again.
I encountered this last night. Rather than drag > drop, I simply copy > pasted the folder to the desktop and it worked fine.
Frameworks 6.17 is supposed to have the fix, though supposedly distros can backport the fix, so I am guessing no one has done so as of yet.
The idea is not to have to rightclick the item and select what you want then rightclick the desktop and select what you want. It’s about saving time.
Well naturally this is the case, I was simply providing an alternative until the fix is pushed.
I was just happy for a fix with the graphic pen tablet area that immediately I had to come back to X11 as drag&drop on Wayland wasn’t working.
I had problems both with Ark (extracting files using drag&drop) and with Dolphin itself, trying to move files with no luck.
I think I’ll wait for a fix and I’ll come back to X11…soon or later I’ll be able to use Wayland for everything…I hope soon than later. 
With the latest framework upgrade, which has now also been released on Manjaro (the distribution I use permanently), the problem has been resolved, and it now works as expected again. Thanks to the developers!