Comment 83 for bug 164640

Allo Gentlemen,
I'm a gtk/cairo user with a particular interest in this bug & patch.
Before this series of patches went into Debian, I kept some of Mr. Turner's patches around for my own use.
The development that has gone into these patches has __greatly__ increased the usability of gtk & gnome for me, and I'd hate to see the work done lost in the 1.8 development cycle.
If the remaining patches around need some sprucing up, I wouldn't mind testing my understanding of cairo innards to tidy them up a bit, given all the new and cool changes Behdad has put into the font layers.
Consider this a gentle >>poke<< then gentlemen.

Thanks,
Nicolaus