Comment 9 for bug 420517

For an absolute beginner, holding their hand and waiting them to move the cursor to open the menus one by one would seem nice, but it will start to annoy you after the third program you've installed, and it will seem like the system thinks you're dumb.

Instead, just open the menu tree and flash a big red "here it is" circle around the application icon for a few seconds, or until the user moves the cursor over the circle.