Please describe the problem:
When the computer just booted, and you click on the "application", "places" or "system" menus, at first the menus open without icons at all (only text), then after a short time icons start to appear.
At first the menu is very small (can only fit text, no space for icons), and as the first icon appears the menu resizes to a bigger size, so that the icons can fit inside. Then icons are filled in one by one in the menu.

There are two problems here:
1. icons don't appear immediately
2. the menu is not at the right size until the first icon appears

both look pretty bad aesthetically.

I think the icons should be loaded in the background when the application/places/system applet is loaded (i know that it will take memory... but the delayed loading really looks bad). Or in the very worst case if the memory that would take is really unnaceptable, at least the menu should be sized directly at the right size, that would be "size to fit text+size to fit icons" so that it doesn't resize almost immediately after being opened.

i don't think the memory used to load icons is that unnaceptable, since once you click on the menu once, they appear to be kept in memory forever anyway. and it's one of those cases where it's worth it, as it gives a very bad immediate experience of GNOME to newcoming users.

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Does this happen every time?


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(note: i really tried to find if that bug was already reported not to report a duplicate but i didn't find a bug covering this issue)