re: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html gtk uses a compiled cache that can be directly mmap()ed into processes. I am sure this is incompatible, but it probably doesn't suffer this problem. http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/gtk-update-icon-cache.html Shawn Landden