Gtk+ improvements - fonts & graphics
Auntiue Aileen's Alien Aliasing - what ?

Pango
anti-aliased fonts,
control - only at certain sizes
GDK_USE_XFT = 1
UTF-8 throught
hard language rendering
mixed R->L, L->R, ligatures, re-ordering
Xft2, fontconfig etc.
Gtk+
double buffering for flicker free rendering
accelerated MMX, XRender image compositing
stock icons - re-designed
widget mirroring for right to left languages
right click cut and paste from entry widgets
xsettings everywhere