Reuben Martin: No no, you misunderstand. I said "spawning of a gui process" (I should rather have said "spawning off a gui process", but I didn't. :-) ). Well, I guess the question was more retorical. I personally think reason is that linux programmers aren't that much into bells and whistles as windows programmers. No, that would not be nice at all. Far too complicated for the hosts, and guis would be different from host to host, and limited by the markup language What would be nice was if we used a common gui-designer like qdesigner or glade, so that someone could make an automatic gui-spawner library that used the xml-files from qdesigner or glade to make guis. That way, anyone could make/edit gui's quite easely. The idea was proposed some years ago, but no one has picked it up. Its not much work to do, but I guess no one has got the time. It must be a community project as well, because it would be useless if no one bothered to make guis for the various plug-ins or the hosts didn't support it. (well, the host-problem could be fixed automatically by making a wrapper ladspa plugin, but its not the ideal solution)