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SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Plug a USB pendrive into a USB prot
2. Click on the SUB connector icon that appears in the Tray area (Disks and Devices)
3. Click "Mount and Open" next to the device name
4. Close the folder window/tab that opened in Dolphin
5. Go back to Disks and Devices and click "Safely remove"

EXPECTED RESULT
It shouldn't take long to safely remove the device in the first place (especially since I didn't do anything with it), but if it does for a legitimate reason, the UI should behave nicely

OBSERVED RESULT
The status text belos the device name now says "Removing..." and a spinning icon appears on the right.
Sometimes, the text then changes to "Don't unplug yet, files are still being transferred" or something like that (I'm quoting from memory, that's probably not the exact wording), then the spinning icon sometimes freezes. Sometimes this happens still at the "Removing..." stage
The icon of the "Disks and Devices" widget becomes a checkmark, which makes no sense whatsoever
The widget stops responding, it doesn't close when you click outside of it, when you explicitly click the "<-" arrow, nor when you click the down arrow at the bottom, and **SOMETIMES THE ENTIRE SYSTEM** stops responding for a while, which is why I'm marking this as "major".
I tried to take a screenshot with the keyboard shortcut for Spectacle once while this was happening; it did nothing and a minute later I got an error saying it failed to launch Spectacle - that's how unresponsive the system was.

After several seconds to one minute, the operation will complete and the system will begin responding normally again. Sometimes, a few of the keyboard or mouse actions that you attempted while the system was frozen will now have their delayed effects all at once, which is another reason for setting the severity to "major" and why you might consider changing it to "critical".

With a given pendrive of mine in particular (which happens to be a bootable Memtest86 iso image) this is now happening almost systematically to me (but not quite).

Note that whether or not there are actual legitimate reasons for the actual "safe removal" operation to take a longer than expected time (which I don't think is the case, but who knows, the usb memory stick itself might be faulty), the UI should at all time remain responsive and never, ever, under any circumstances, should the responsive of the entire system be affected.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Manjaro Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.6.84-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1255U
Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: Vivobook_ASUSLaptop X1502ZA_F1502ZA
System Version: 1.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION