There have been quite a few FreeBSD users that wish they could easily control
the font smoothing (antialiasing) in gnome-terminal to improve performance.  Now
with vte-0.11.11, this is possible.  Attached are patches to make this happen. 
They are against HEAD, but will also apply out-of-the-box to the GNOME 2.6
branch.  It would be nice if they could be applied (in some form) to both branches.

Note: my HIG-fu sucks, so the GUI option is now under the Effects tab.  This was
the easiest for me to do, and proved the concept.  However, someone with more
HIG and glade fu should probably make this better (i.e. place it under the pango
font selector, and make the widget conditional on pango font support).

I'd be happy to do this if someone with more GUI skills could help guide me.