Mark Howard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone explain why the gtk-menu-popup-delay property defaults to
> 255ms? I think this is one of the reasons at least that gnome appears
> to be so slow to many people. I've set it to default to 0 in my local
> jhbuild environment and the panel menus seem much more responsive.

Probably for usability reasons. If submenus appear immediately upon 
mouseover, you'll lose the currently open submenu when you accidentally 
moves your mouse outside the current submenu's space. MS Windows also 
behaves similarily, though their delay is longer than GTK's. Yet people 
complain more about GTK's speed than Windows's speed.
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