Interface fonts in Firefox and Thunderbird with KDE4

[Kevin Kofler]

On Sunday 21 December 2008, James Amundson wrote:
> Does anyone out there understand how Firefox and Thunderbird determine
> which fonts to use for their user interface, i.e., menus, etc? I have
> installed "GTK styles and Fonts" display settings module. It works fine
> for ordinary gtk and Gnome applications. However, Firefox and
> Thunderbird seem to have some more complex system for determining their
> system fonts. The only way I can get F & T to respect my font choice
> while using KDE4 is to
>     (1) log in under Gnome,
>     (2) change some font settings,
>     (3) log out (without rebooting)
>     (4) log in under KDE4.

Looks like they only honor the settings from gnome-settings-daemon (which 
doesn't run by default in KDE), not the GTK+ settings.

        Kevin Kofler