Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

  1. Bug #12040
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 12040

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Ari (ari-reads) wrote : Re: Gnome menu is slow when clicking for the first time

+1 on this.

The bugzilla patch is from 2005, it doesn't look like the fix has been commited to gnome: gutsy still has this problem, two years after; here's a workaround i found googling:

http://www.marksanborn.net/linux/speed-up-the-gnome-menu-and-fix-the-annoying-icon-delay/