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I922sParkCir

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Tuesday, February 7th 2006, 4:39pm

Why does Firefox always look like crap?

Why does Firefox always look like crap?

I'm using both Kubuntu and SUSE with KDE 3.4 and the fonts for my shortcuts, and menus look like crap. They are huge and and take up too much of my small 12 in. screen. I like KDE too much to switch too Gnome, and Firefox too much to switch to Opera. I'm a newbie so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

coco-loco

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Wednesday, February 8th 2006, 8:36am

In the Tools menu of your firefox, you find an item Themes, click on it. On the bottom of the pop-up, click the link Get more Themes which will open a browser window. Navigate the extensions, there are a few with specially tiny fonts and icons, like littlefox. Install them by following the instructions, usually just a click on the install link.

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Tuesday, February 21st 2006, 11:16pm

Really, you're out of luck due to the fact that Firefox is a GTK based application, while all the native KDE applications are based on [QT]


One way to get around this is to install a GTK theme that blends with QT as much as possible

gtk2-engines-gtk-qt - theme engine using Qt for GTK+ 2.x



thats the package on debian based distributions, allows you to set GTK styles from within the KDE control center, its not perfect.


here is what i've been able to do with a firefox theme that emulates crystal...


however, I would suggest just using Konqueror. It is a great browser/file manager.
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Wednesday, February 22nd 2006, 8:23am

Yesterday I read on this forum the suggestion to change the DPI of your XServer.
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