This is a set of widget styles for Gtk2 based apps. The fonts and colours for the GTK themes will be read in from your Qt settings so any KDE font/colour changes will also affect your GTK apps. If you want Gtk2 apps to use the theme system wide, create a symbolic link to the new theme like this: ln -s /usr/share/themes/QtCurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc Note that in Slackware 13.1, KDE and GTK assume different things. The GTK+2 package is compiled to use /etc/gtk-2.0/*-slackware-linux/gtkrc, while KDE is hardcoded to look in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. Consequently, you will probably want to put your preferred gtkrc in the GTK path, and then put a symlink to it at /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc for KDE to use (or vice versa - either will work). Alternatively, gtk-chtheme works fine on a per user basis.