When there are thousands of shortcuts added to the application dashboard the whole system becomes unusable for a few minutes whilst (i presume) it loads them up. After that plasma has a very large memory footprint There are other menus that have specifically added a faster start up and didnt have this problem but they havent been ported to plasma6
Do you mean with thousands of applications installed that show up in the dashboard?
Yes. I have made custom shortcuts ( a lot obviously) and when I click the application dashboard icon there is a long pause (minute or two) before plasma is usable again
Can you share a little bit more info? Are a lot of shortcuts using the same application with different parameters? Are those shortcuts coming from same category of app types or?
They are separate custom desktop shortcuts in custom application directories
Can you describe your workflow, and how you manage to make effective use of thousands of shortcuts? I ask because this seems pretty wild to me, far outside of the expected design limits. :) So I'm wondering how you use the system like this?
I use a lot for emulation shortcuts to specific games. What I have noticed is the standard application launcher (dashboard) is very slow when there are lots of shortcuts but, as an example, this launcher/menu loads up instantly with the same amount of shortcuts https://github.com/heqro/stupid-simple-launcher Unfortunately it doesn't support plasma 6