I'm running GNOME 2.10, and KDE 3.4.2, and some apps, specifically XMMS look really ugly. I'm not talking about skins, I mean underneath, when you right click to open a file or look at the options menu. It's all gray, and doesn't match my KDE, or GNOME themes at all. Audacity also suffers from the same thing. Skype used to have this problem in Ubuntu when I didn't have KDE installed, but that wouldn't make any sense now, since I'm running both environments in Debian. Can anyone relate? Here's what I mean.

That's because they use GTK1, GTK2 has a theme engine so when you use KDE, it uses Qt functions to draw the widgets so they all look the same and match, nice huh? GTK1 doesn't have that and you can't get that. You can get themes for it, but they won't exactly match your Qt theme so it'll still look weird. Your best bet is to just survive with Audacity, you know why now so move on and use it because it works, not because it looks outstanding. Uninstall XMMS and go install BMP (beep-media-player), it's XMMS but ported to GTK2. So it's the same app but looks nice and purty.

Ok then, good to know it's not just my system.