Program menu size is not consistent with and without icons

[Lean Fuglsang]

When clicking Programs, Places or System it sometimes takes some times before the icons are loading.
When this happens the text is displayed first displayed. When the icons is loaded they are displayed at once, and the menu grows bigger.
This is a problem when you have moved your mouse over some text and tries to click at it, then suddenly you open a wrong program.
Also it is irritating for the eye that the menu changes size.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321462

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That seems to be fixed from upstream comment, closing. Feel free to reopen if you still get the problem

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

I'm still seeing this problem in Feisty.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

are you sure icons are changing and that's not a text shift as described on the upstream bug?

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

I guess it depends on what is meant by a "text shift". The text does move around, but it's a lot more than the 1 pixel or so described in the linked bug. It's enough to be a problem: clicks can easily miss the intended target) The problem that I see (sometimes; it's hard to reproduce):

Click Applications menu.
Applications menu shows up, missing icons. spacing of menu items is the same as if icons were there.
After a time of several seconds during which the menu is insensitive to mouseover, the menu items move to the spacing they perhaps should have if there were no icons.
After another time of a few seconds (less than the previous step), the icons reappear and the menu items move again back to where they should be. They don't always all return at once.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Reopening the upstream bug with your comment then

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed upstream

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That upload fixes the bug:

 gnome-panel (2.17.92-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     Panel:
     - Fix wrong initial position of menu (Ubuntu: #30146)
     - Code cleanups
     - Add missing mnemonics in main menu
     - Don't show multiple times a dialog about an applet failing to load
     - Don't try to load again in the same session an applet that failed to
       load before
     - Get localized names when starting a launcher so that the startup
       notification use the translated name
     - Fix image size on the run dialog so that it's always the correct size
     - Set automatic gravity for the labels in the menubar, so that japanese
       and other scripts are correctly displayed on vertical panels
     Workspace Switcher Applet:
     - Make mouse scrolling correctly work in RTL environments
     - Performance improvement when a workspace is renamed/added/removed.
       This has an important impact when accessibility is turned on.
     - Fix speed of the spin button for number of workspaces (Ubuntu: #83334)
     Clock Applet:
     - Set automatic gravity for the clock label, so that japanese and other
       scripts are correctly displayed on vertical panels
     - Make it possible to use markup for the clock text, which is useful
       with custom format
     - Don't wake up every second if it's not necessary
     Misc:
     - Add missing check for gconf for libpanel-applet
     - Require pango 1.15.4
     - Distribute MAINTAINERS
     Docs:
     - Update fish screenshot
   * debian/control.in:
     - Build-Depends on libgconf2-dev (>= 2.6.1), libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.15.4)
     - package maintainer by the Ubuntu Desktop Team
   * debian/patches/07_use_beagle.patch:
     - dropped the patch changing the search menu item, beagle users want to
       use gnome-search-tools also and beagle is to the applications menu
   * debian/patches/09_lpi_src.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/11_panel_addto_dialog.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/12_autoreconf.patch:
     - renamed to reflect the right command and updated

[miked (miked11)]

8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha 3
upgraded icons disappeared under ->Places Menu
Background changed