I guess it depends on what is meant by a "text shift". The text does move around, but it's a lot more than the 1 pixel or so described in the linked bug. It's enough to be a problem: clicks can easily miss the intended target) The problem that I see (sometimes; it's hard to reproduce):
Click Applications menu. Applications menu shows up, missing icons. spacing of menu items is the same as if icons were there. After a time of several seconds during which the menu is insensitive to mouseover, the menu items move to the spacing they perhaps should have if there were no icons. After another time of a few seconds (less than the previous step), the icons reappear and the menu items move again back to where they should be. They don't always all return at once. ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Unconfirmed -- Program menu size is not consistent with and without icons https://launchpad.net/bugs/46310 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs