Using strace I wanted to make up some statistics how many files pidgin loads during a 5 second startup time. Using grep and regexes the following is shown:

Attempts to a open file: 2886

Failed Attempts: 1457

Opened(non-failed) for read-only: 1407

Opened(non-failed) for read-only without those from /var/cache: 1371

Shared libraries: 213

PNG-images: 90

ICON-images: 164