gnome apps in kde

[Lionel van den Berg]

Lionel van den Berg wrote:
> 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?

I might add that the rendering in firefox is altogether very very bad! 
Sound is also not working gaim but it was on gnome.

Lionel.