Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

I use some programs from KDE in my Gnome desktop and fonts there do not look right.
I tried to solve this and installed KDE Settings app. This solved the KDE fonts problem, but messed up some of my other fonts. I have been playing with it a lot and most of the fonts now look right. In programs, everything is fine, but on web, some of fonts are very ugly. Most of them are fine, but on some pages it looks like no hinting / clearing is used. The problem is in Firefox, when I have allowed pages to use their own font. When this is turned off, all works fine, but fonts look not right everywhere. Chromium does not have this problem at all.
So how can I trace where is the problem and fix this? See images please. Thanks.
Last edited by Raqua (2010-04-02 10:19:11)

I tried the DPI thing, but it did not help. I did not tried the font replacement thing, because going through all the fonts and changing them manually is quite a task. There should be some other way.
I tried to remove all my ubuntu font packages from AUR and installing stock, then back again to ubuntu in hope of restoring the settings, but it did not helped.
Thanks for your suggestions anyway. It was working before, so I just want it to get back to the state it was before. Unfortunately my knowledge in fonts is scarce.

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