Hi, Carol Spears <carol@xxxxxxxx> writes: > what does the pluginrc do? GIMP caches the procedures registered by the plug-ins there. By doing that it doesn't need to query the plug-ins on each startup. > the last time i looked at it, it seemed that gap was making some > extensive use of this file. gap registers quite a few plug-ins and procedure calls so it's not surprising that it shows up there. Sven