Thanks a lot for reporting this, however this is not a trivially fixable so I am marking it down as a paper cut.
The reason for this is that we should only display a 'please wait' icon when the menu is taking too long to open up, but the definition of too long is open to interpretation. Such a feature would not be implemented in gnome-panel since that would only solve the problem there without affecting any other menu in the system that could open slowly. Instead this would be implemented in GTK, the graphical framework upon which the entire Ubuntu interface is built, which would also be nontrivial. ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Incomplete => Invalid ** Package changed: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) => gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527594 Title: Add "wait cursor" during first click at "main menu" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs