gtk 2.7.3 with cairo doesn't use font rendering settings

thanks for your bug. The font issue is known and fixed with the next version of
pango/gtk. What kind of configuration do you have?

I have a Celeron M 1.4GHz (w/speedsteping), 512MB RAM.

As of the software side, I have a self-compiled freetype 2.1.9 with bytecode
interpreter enabled. It is configured with rgb subpixel rendering and full
autohinter.

*** Bug 19185 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is fixed with this upload:

 pango1.0 (1.9.1-0ubuntu1) breezy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - support setting of font options and DPI on PangoContext for
       the Cairo backend (Ubuntu: #12876).
   * debian/control.in:
     - updated the Build-Depends on cairo.
     - updated the Standards-Version.
   * debian/patches/buildfix.patch:
     - fix the build.

(In reply to comment #4)
> This is fixed with this upload:
>
> pango1.0 (1.9.1-0ubuntu1) breezy; urgency=low
> .
> * New upstream version:
> - support setting of font options and DPI on PangoContext for
> the Cairo backend (Ubuntu: #12876).
Yes, one issue is resolved. There's the bigger problem. Speed issue when looking
at gtk 2.6.8->2.7.1
Well... I didn't really measure it. I have a speedstep CPU, normally running
@175MHz (typical text applications, browsing etc.)

After upgrading gtk to 2.7 w/cairo rendering, I see CPU clocking up to at least
~500 or 700MHz just to render a web page (even without graphics). The same with
some cpu-intensive gtk widgets, like gtktreeview. I have a 800MHz desktop
machine with KDE. The desktop has a wonderful fast 'feel', where gtk seems to be
slower each release.

With newer gtk versions (2.6 and up) even scrolling package list in synaptic is
a problem (the list constantly 'jumps', doesn't render fluently. We should avoid
the situation where there's a need for 3GHz CPU to use Windows notepad.exe-like
application ;)

Maybe breezy should have its Gnome compiled against gtk-2.6 instead of the
experimental-and-much-slow-2.8 one?