SUMMARY

Haruna's menu bar doesn't respond to mouse movements or clicks immediately. When I move the mouse, it takes a moment for the highlight to appear on the item I moved to. When I click a menu item, it takes a moment for it to open. These delays seem to be caused by waiting for animations to complete.

I find these delays and animations frustrating. They interfere with my muscle memory for navigating menus. They cause me to second guess my mouse aim. It feels like someone resized some of the stairs that I use to enter and leave my home, causing me to trip whenever I use them.

They also break consistency on my desktop (since no other application does this), and by introducing lag, they make the application feel sluggish.

I suggest making Haruna's menus consistent with the KDE desktop, or at least offering the option to do so.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Move mouse to application menu.
2. Click a menu item.

OBSERVED RESULT

There is a delay before the hovered menu item is highlighted, and another delay before the clicked item opens.

EXPECTED RESULT

There should be no delays. (Unless perhaps the user has configured KDE to use some kind of global menu animations that deliberately introduce delays, but I have not.)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: Debian 11
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2