* Kevin Donnelly (kevin@dotmon.com) [030927 11:53]:
So the sad conclusion seems to be that GTK2 and QT don't coexist nicely. (It may be that if you have Gnome installed as an alternative desktop, the SuSE install does some magic that sorts that out. I don't know, and for me life is too short to try it out.) The only alternative if you want a decent-looking desktop is never to launch CC2 (which starts the confounded gnome-settings-daemon, which you have to logout to get rid of), and put up with crappy fonts in Gnome apps (which means I, like you, will only use them when I absolutely have to). This seems a bit of an own-goal, really, since for the five years I have been using Linux it was always possible to have apps from Gnome looking reasonable on KDE - no longer, it seems.
I conclude from this that Gnome either that needs a bit more work, or that its coders have forgotten how to play nicely :-)
I'm not sure why your having such an issue. I use the gnome-settings-daemon to control GTK2 fonts while in KDE and all of my fonts..Gnome2 or KDE look just absolutely kickass. I would think it's a setting somewhere that has been fubared. Give this screenshot a look. You'll see that I have Gaim and Mozilla-Firebird (GTK2 apps) running within KDE. My desktop fonts are just as good as Kmail and Konqueror are. So at least in my case I know that it's possible. I've also replaced every Gnome2 package that came with 8.2 with the usr-local-bin packages or at least all that James has built. http://www.whack.org/~ben/current-desktop.jpg -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.