I worked around the drawer opening delay by hardcoding the animation time to 0 in gnome-panel sources. I don't think this can be considered a proper fix, but at least it makes drawers usable again. Patch attached.
How to build the patched .deb file (Ubuntu 10.04, gnome-panel 2.30.2): sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-panel apt-get source gnome-panel cd gnome-panel-2.30.2 patch -p1 < ../gnome-panel.drawer.patch dpkg-buildpackage ** Patch added: "gnome-panel.drawer.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/108951/+attachment/1605491/+files/gnome-panel.drawer.patch -- Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108951 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs