Why are Desktop,Places,Applications so slow in Gnome Panel?

[Florin Andrei]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 11:23 -0700, Jim Christiansen wrote:
> I have noticed on a bunch of computers that my Gnome panel is really slow (5 
> seconds or so after a click) to respond to clicking Desktop, Places or the 
> Applications buttons- the first time after logon.  They respond a little 
> better, or normally, afterwards to repeated clicks.
> 
> These computers are all newer high-end single or dual 64 bit, 1 to 6 gig ram 
> systems...  All clean and up to date FC4.

The menus/icons are not read ahead after reboot/logon, therefore they're
waiting for the first user interaction to load.
Not nice, I know. It's a bug. Feel free to subscribe / add comments:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177215

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Florin Andrei

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