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Ubuntu 9.10
Gimp 2.6.7

I have downloaded over 300 Mb of Brushes , extracted them into .gimp-2.6/brushes , and the size now it`s 1.4 Gb

The problem is that Gimp is loading all the brushes into the RAM, even if you are not going to use them.

I propose a more elegant solution. That gimp makes a .thumbs 64x64 preview (or whatever the size) of each brush and load the brush file only when the user need them.

I find it stupid to wait even a minute or so to open the brushes and wait to load all the brushes, only to use a bunch of them. And when you are using high quality brush files (2-3 Mb per file) this problem it`s going to get worse.

I would attach all the brushes , but i don`t think that is a good ideea to load the launchpad server with a 300 Mb zip file.

Original posted here :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/513031