Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 104210
It takes way too long to open the popup menu (context menu)
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:48:12 UTC
Start OOo Writer 3.1. Right-click somewhere onto the empty document. Even on a fairly fast machine, it takes up to 2 seconds (feels like 3-5 secs) until the popup menu is shown. Experience is similar in Calc and Impress, depending of course on the context. But the menu almost never appears immediately, which is what I as a user expect.
It seems that it depends somehow on your machine. I have a fairly slow VM and context menu opens up real fast without delay. I've tried with OOo 3.1.1 and dev300_55.
There almost always is a relation between performance of a system and the performance of applications that run on it :-) My Windows Vista system runs on an Intel Core2 Duo T9300 CPU at 2.5 GHz. Enough to get a Windows performance rating of 5.1, which is pretty decent. So, no, it is not my slow system causing this. I could also observe this very behavior on Malte's machine.
You haven't mentioned Vista. I know that there is this relation. :-; But I've not written that your system is slow. Just that there is something that causes this delay for what reason ever. Even on my Ultra 40 with Vista and a rating of 4.8, connected via a SunRay and a Solaris rdesktop I can't get a 2 second delay (or because of). So my conclusion is that this is not the default behavior of OOo.
I have had the problem with my installation running on XP. Sometimes it took 5-6 seconds to show the context menu. This delay did not happen on a misspelled word. Then I have disabled all the unneeded dictionaries (5-6), the Wiki extension and now I have no delay when calling the context menu anymore. Maybe this problem is related to extensions.