gnorpm is still doing the dozens of boxes flashing on the screen when you hit preferences for the first time. This was fixed in a later version of it. (Other fixes went in to, but I am not sure what.) The flashing boxes not only looks awful, on a slow machine with 32megs I can watch the load shoot up as the windows get drawn and taken away again. The version with info in the status line would be much preferred!
Can't reproduce with gnorpm-0.96-1.