Hi, just FYI: we've by now done the discussed changes to the GPConfig struct. GimpPreviewArea has been changed to make the checkerboard pattern configurable and GimpDrawablePreview already passes the config values to the preview area. What remains to be done is: (1) Add a popup menu (to GimpPreview) that allows to configure the checkerboard per preview instance. (2) Add another GimpPreview derived widget to libgimpui. That widget would be used from plug-ins such as the Plasma plug-in which don't need the GimpDrawablePreview functionality. The widget could be called GimpSimplePreview (an idea for a better name would be very much appreciated). It would embed a GimpPreviewArea in a sunken GtkFrame and it would take care of setting a proper size as well as configuring the preview area to the gimprc values. Sven