I have encountered this problem too. It happened with a freshly installed Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04. Now with Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 and gnome-staging ppa it's still there. It's a real pain. You wait for the menu to appear then you click and wait for the menu to disappear again. As RK mentioned a reboot helps also restart of gnome-shell helps (Alt+F2, r) at least for a short time. But in contrast to RK I don't see anything unusual in syslog. I'm working on several AMD APU desktop systems with open source radeon driver. I tried Mate 1.12 from ppa and there the problem is not present. All modal dialogs and context menus (right click) appear fast and disappear the same way.
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