I'm in Precise now and as far as I can see, there is no more delay for the menu to appear when launching a gtk app within gnome-shell. I would close this report then.
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/881473 Title: Global menu (appmenu) environment setting should be disabled/avoided when using gnome-shell instead of Unity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/881473/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs