file/directory highlighting with KDE

Hi, I've got suse running on a development box and like the directory/file highlighting with KDE. I'd like to enable this on a sun box. What files would I need to copy over? Also on the linux box when I do a `ls`, I see the files highlighted, but when I run an alias command, eg alias fil='clear;echo "LIST OF FILES";ls -l | grep "^-"' I no longer see the highlighting. Why? Thanks Alex