KDE Applications look better in Cinammon. Solved

I am trying to get a decent desktop going. have installed KDE, KDE-Base etc.
But the KDE apps have very poor color scheme/fonts/ Thin light grey letters on a light grey tool bar.
I have tried to use KDE to change the themes but no luck.
I have installed Cinnamon, and when I run Konqueror etc under Cinnamon they look MUCH better. Menus and letters are readable.
Is there a way to fix KDE so the apps look right?
pgmer6809
Last edited by pgmer6809 (2014-05-09 20:50:12)

K Thanks for the pointers.
'looks right' means that under cinnamon the desktop does not look like kde (duh!) and the menu structures are all different, and the bar at the bottom is using non KDE icons etc.
Under KDE the fonts were grey on grey and very hard to read. (number one complaint).
However now fixed mostly. Changed the theme from CDE to Oxygen. and just to be safe the appplication appearance ditto.
KDE now seems useable.
Next step is to get X, KDE, and network to start automatically at boot.
Thanks again for the help.
pgmer6809

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