Delay on first click of Activities 2.04L

[dhicks]

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I've only been able to test on one older laptop model, but has anyone else seen a 10+ second delay the first time you click on Activities with the Mate desktop on 2.04L?  Once it generates the Activities the first time, it is quick.  It just seems that something is happening in the background during that first click that delays the display of the menu.

Thanks,
David

[jnetman1]

The Activities menu doesn't draw all the icons until you click it the first time, so on a particularly slow system there can be a noticeable delay. Working on getting it to handle this on first load to mask the delay, but not quite working yet.

[leink]

Has anything been done with this.  My delay on my old systems can be betwee5 to 10 seconds.  I like the menu but may need to find an alternative.  Things I have tried:
1) run the mintmenu.py during load
2) program a mouse click on startup but mintmenu won't appear on panel until after scripts done
3) tried switching to xfce4 to run whisker but not smart enough to get it running

I love the product 9great for our school district) but really need help here.

Ken