Thanks to Stephan, Miguel and Marco for recent posts about the GNOME Main Menu. Thanks in particular to Marco for his mockups of essentially what I said last month should happen with the menu. I think I'd want to add a couple more comments:

• The menu takes too long to appear the first time you click it. On my notebook (Core Solo CPU, 512M RAM) it takes about a second from my click to the menu appearing - it should be basically instantaneous.
• It occasionally starts consuming lots and lots of memory as does the application-browser although the a-b issue would be knocked on the head were Marco's mockups to be implemented.