I'm writing a GUI program and decided to go native on all platforms.
But for all the stuff i need to draw myself i would like to use the same drawing routines because font and unicode handling is so difficult and complex.
Do you see any negative points in useing Pango/Cairo. Well on MacOSX i havent succeded installing Pango/Cairo yet. Looks like a bad Omen.
I would also like to hear about the performance penality. The first time i looked at Pango i thought, yes thats the reason why Software is still getting despite better hardware.