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Master of Reality:
whats with the fonts... is their  a separation between MS/windows and linux fonts? Or can i use fonts that i downloaded in Linux no matter what?

Heru:
It somewhat depends on your distrobution.
Generally you can use .ttf fonts in Linux without a problem.  I do not know the command to install them though.  But KDE does have a(although it is somewhat weird at times) font installer called Kfontinstall.  And Mandrake Linux has Fontdrake.  
If you don't have either of those tools, then you'll have to do it the hard way.  I think www.linuxnewbie.org has a tutorial on fonts.

voidmain:
I just copied all the *.ttf fonts from the Windows font dir (%WINDIR%\FONTS) to my Linux TrueType directory and ran "mkfontdir". Then you have all your Windows fonts too (or use the KDE font installer in Control Center, see "Control Center"->"System"->"Font Installer" and browse to your /c/windows/fonts).

hoojchoons:
Same here. I copied the Windows *.ttf fonts and used kfontinstall to install them. I can say with certainty that they have improved KDE's appearance a bit.

Master of Reality:
I used kfontinstaller to easily install my tengwar-Quenya font (its a type of elvish)

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