I am using Arch linux and KDE 4.5.1. I have used KDE for about a week. I also installed Tomboy, Iron and Emacs. It looks like that KDE setting does not apply to those non-KDE apps. Menus, Fonts and buttons look ugly to me. Can I set set this application looks like not very difficult from my KDE setting? Thank you.

in systemsettings there's a "GTK Styles and Fonts" settings module, try qtcurve and click "use my KDE fonts ..."

to find the module just use the search field and search for gtk (Application Appearance will be highlighted)

since1992 wrote:I am using Arch linux and KDE 4.5.1. I have used KDE for about a week. I also installed Tomboy, Iron and Emacs. It looks like that KDE setting does not apply to those non-KDE apps. Menus, Fonts and buttons look ugly to me. Can I set set this application looks like not very difficult from my KDE setting? Thank you.

Debian has the following packages, there may be similar named ones for Arch:

kde-config-gtk-style
kde-style-qtcurve
gtk-qt-engine

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Geoff

Thank you for your great helps. It looks a lot better now. I installed these five packages.

# pacman lxappearance
# pacman gtk-chtheme
# pacman gtk-theme-switch2
# pacman gtk2_prefs
# pacman gtk-engines

And, in System setting with icon view, Lost and Found > GTK Styles and Fonts was generated

As you recommended, I set GTK Style to "Use my KDE Style in GTK applications" and set GTK Fonts to "Use my KDE fonts in GTK applications". And I had to reboot my Arch box. It worked wonderfully. Thank you.

I would like to mark this thread as solved since I got a lot better looks in non-KDEE(GTK) applications. However, I want to leave a note that I was failed to get GTK application's fonts as in KDE setting. Thank you.

Not seeing GTK setting when installing those packages on Arch

Did you try to run kbuildsycoca4 after installation?