We've done upgrades on several SUSE systems(from 9.1 to 9.3) to v10 and
there's a problem that appears to have been mentioned several times in the
past but doesn't appear to have a very elegant solution in this version.
It's the issue with GTK/Qt apps not having a direct control over their fonts,
with the result that setting fonts in the Control Center doesn't affect them.
Thus you have apps like Firefox with overly fat bookmark fonts, while the
regular web page displays fine.
I've found the solution involving running the gnome-font-properties, which
works fine as long as you start up the gnome-settings-daemon with every
session. The trouble with that is it appears to do a number of nasty jobs on
various aspects of my KDE desktop. For instance, it insists on starting up a
screensaver(which I don't use), it takes over a number of peripheral
behaviours, such as key-repeats, and it's managed to munge up my Alt-tab
windows-switching behaviour. This isn't surprising given you've got two
daemons running contended for resources.
This solution seems to be the secret solution-de-jour out there for this
problem, but I can't believe this is considered to be appropriate.
I was under the understanding that gtk-qt-engine(with both 64 and 32 bit
versions installed here) was supposed to handle all this without resorting to
running two WMs at once.
About the only thing I haven't tried is to install Gnome also, log in, config
everything the way I want, then log back into KDE, but this isn't a
prefereable solution, besides being overkill.
Any thoughts, experiences, appreciated.
I'm running on an x64 system, if that matters...
Cheers,
J.C.