Hi, "William Skaggs" <weskaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sorry, could you please give a pointer? I haven't managed to find > any discussion more recent than 1997. A few months ago, I outlined possible ways to cut down the startup time of GIMP. The solution I suggested involves adding configuration files for the data files which is a prerequisite for a hierarchical organization of these files. It's basically the first step that needs to be be taken. Instead of reading the brush files on startup, populate the brush GimpContainer from a brushrc file. This would be very similar to how information about plug-ins is stored in pluginrc. Thanks to GimpConfig, this should be pretty much straight-forward. As soon as this is done, we can switch to nested GimpContainers. GimpConfig supports this already, so it's basically only the user interface that will need to be changed. Sven
