[Jeremy Linton <jli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Morriss wrote:

> How about some other GTK2 application?  My recollection is that GTK2 is 
> pretty talkative (in terms of X traffic).
	I just started gimp 2.6.2, its got a similar splash screen. It started in ~10 seconds.  It is laggy like wireshark, 
which lends credence that something in gtk is being a little more chatty than emacs/xterm/etc. The gtk version is 
2.14.4, glib 2.18.2 (default for my SUSE 11.1 install).