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