gnome-panel Drawers delay when opening

[tewan]

As stated in the topic, the gnome-panel Drawer has a considerable delay when opening.

A (real-time) video of what is happening:
http://tewan.info/drawerdelay.ogv

I've tried setting the gnome-menu-popup-delay to 0, but it did not help. Any recommendations?

[tewan]

Perhaps there's another drawer applet for gnome-panel I could use to fix this? :/

[stinkeye]

It's been like that for years.
If you want a launcher,try docky or gnome-do.

[mcduck]

As stated in the topic, the gnome-panel Drawer has a considerable delay when opening.

A (real-time) video of what is happening:
http://tewan.info/drawerdelay.ogv

I've tried setting the gnome-menu-popup-delay to 0, but it did not help. Any recommendations?

The drawers used to work really fast some Gnome versions ago, but in the recent versions it seems as if the icons aren't cached but instead read again and again each time you open a drawer. Because of that there is no setting that would make the drawers open more smoothly.

You could try searching if there's already a bug filed about it (most likely there is) and add yourself to the bug so the developers know that this really is annoying many people even though the drawers are one of the less-used features of Gnome. Then hopefully they'll fix the issue some day...

(and no, sadly it doesn't seem like there is any other drawer applet around. Amazingly few people seem to actually realize how useful the drawers are..)

[3aTi3]

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

i havent tried it, but worked for others.