Menu group "File Edit View..." delays to appear after a created window is rendered, in gnome-shell

[DjznBR]

When you open any window in gnome-shell compilation from ubuntu oneiric repos, there is a delay for the menu group in window to appear. A menu group of a window is the "File Edit View Tools", etc that is below the title bar. The behaviour in gnome-shell may or may not be releated to the global menu configurations in the system.

My hardware is:

ATI HD 3200
RS780
Using radeon open source driver.

I have experienced this on Ubuntu 11.10 and Kubuntu 11.10 both fully updated to this day.
All latest packages related to gnome-shell.

How to reproduce:

1) Make the universe repository available.
2) Install gnome-shell via: sudo apt-get install sudo gnome-shell

Login using GNOME and try to open a few applications, like Nautilus, etc.
Notice that the Menu group window has a tiny delay, but really annoying.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Giorgio Wicklein (giowck)]

I think this delay is due the dbus menu interface, in gnome shell we are not using the global menu, so maybe the delay is related to this.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I don't believe this is a GNOME Shell issue, but is a problem with the appmenu.

[DjznBR (djzn-br)]

Hey Jeremy, thanks for your input. Actually, I don't know if this is happening only on our 2 machines (giowck's and mine) or it is actually happening every gnome-shell installation of oneiric. This is critical, I'm glad you have spotted the problem. Hope this is fixed really soon, because I'm on arch, and I find it a pain to recommend it to users.

[DjznBR (djzn-br)]

I'm sorry... is it fixed?
Is it laying around proposed repos or was it deployed directly to normal updates?
Last time I checked I haven't got any update concerning this package.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's fixed in precise, not in Oneiric

[DjznBR (djzn-br)]

well, that is of *GREAT* help...
sorry to be naggy and ironic, but what's the point not backporting this to Oneiric?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

if every change landing in the new cycle was backported then stable would be a copy of unstable, what would be the point to have stable versions?

that said:
- this fix only landed in precise, usually fixes need to be tested and confirmed to be working before being backported
- the fix depends on a new gtk api and other changes, it's non trivial to backport
- you or anyone else is welcome to help and backport extra fixes, the current team has limited resources and do what it can