gnome apps in kde

[Lionel van den Berg]

Hi all,

I'm trying Ubuntu for the first time, I've been using Mandriva for a 
couple of years. So far it looks decent but I have some things that I 
would like to change.

I have found after downloading and installing kde that the apps that 
appear to be gnome in origin, such as gaim, and some others such as 
firefox, thunderbird and synaptic look pretty bad in kde. The fonts are 
small and the them is very plane. I have adjusted some kde font settings 
etc. but it doesn't seem to be affecting these apps. Does anyone have 
any suggestions?

Thanks,

Lionel.