Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:52 PM, linux guy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I upgraded to a larger monitor and now Linux (KDE) looks a bit dumpy.
>
> Can someone point me to some really nice KDE themes, desktops, etc.

There are a bunch at http://kde-look.org/

I can't recommend one because I just use Oxygen with the Obsidian
Coast (black-on-white) color scheme, which suits me just fine.

> I'm having a bunch of trouble with fonts, especially in Firefox.
> Everything looks a bit fuzzy.   And yet jpeg images look excellent.

Try enabling font hinting.  As root:
ln -sf ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-authohint.conf

-T.C.