Bug 494825

Summary: Moving cursor over app descriptions and in/out of the launcher rapidly leads to a slow down in the shell and increased memory usage
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Marcelo <marcelohdez.inq>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: mikel5764, nate, noahadvs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 6.2.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Marcelo 2024-10-15 20:31:08 UTC
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SUMMARY
Rapidly moving cursor over app descriptions in the applauncher, and in/out of the launcher itself leads to a slow down in the shell and increased memory usage

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open app launcher (Fedora logo on left of default panel)
2. Circle mouse over multiple apps and in/out of the launcher window for a few seconds
3. Observe the highlighting of buttons slows down, fans slowly rev, memory usage spikes

OBSERVED RESULT
Eventual slow down and high resource usage

EXPECTED RESULT
For system to stay snappy

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: N/A
macOS: N/A
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 41 Beta
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-11-14 17:59:27 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 483205 ***