Getting Firefox to look good in KDE

Posted on July 15th, 2008 by raoul and tagged , , , , , , , .

Anyone who uses Kubuntu will know that Firefox looks absolutely awful in KDE. Recently my friend Richard tipped me off on a way to make Firefox (and other GTK applications) really look like a KDE application. Here's how...

  1. Open up Adept Package Manager:
    Adept Package Manager
  2. Search for a package named "gtk2-engines-qtcurve":
    Package gtk2-engines-qtcurve
  3. Open up System Settings:
    System Settings
  4. Now click on Appearance:
    Appearance
  5. Now click on GTK Styles and Fonts and in the GTK Styles section, select QtCurve as your style:
    GTK Styles and Fonts
  6. Lastly, click Apply, and now all your GTK applications will look like they're KDE apps. Remember that this will only apply to newly opened windows and not those that are currently open.

Happy hacking!