Thanks for the nice comments rmerren

Going back to the startup speed, looks like I made a school-boy error moving the plugin loading to a thread some months ago, I've now fiex this and we end with a startup time which is twice as quick, however the plugin loading still needs to be done. My preference would be to defer this until after the UI is displayed and then let it run in a bg thread, but apparently it's not possible to set thread priorities so this interferes with the camera view, so I'm currently thinking that the plugin loading should be performed when the results window is first displayed - this produces a delay, which is not ideal, so I'll see if there are any other options re. threading.

In any case I hope to have a new version in Extras-devel this evening.