Just one issue. This "Future of the GIMP" paper doesn't say anyting about GNOME integration. I think this is an important issue. I know that GIMP wants to be plataform independent (just now KDE/GNOME independent, because other Unix vendors as HP-UX, Solaris and AIX are dropping CDE towards GNOME), but GNOME optional support will be very interesting. For example: * Drag & Drop file management and image management * Export GIMP as a control and open your image inside OppenOffice with the GIMP * Use Red Carpet to update plugins via bonobo: Bonobo_Control control; GtkWidget *widget; control = bonobo_get_object ("redcarpet:", "IDL:Bonobo/Control:1.0") widget = bonobo_widget_new_from_control (control); With this we can have a software/plugins distribution system, without write any line of code about http, rpm, apt, etc.... Please, comments... -- Fernando Herrera de las Heras Onírica: análisis, diseño e implantación de soluciones informáticas http://www.onirica.com