When switching from GNOME to KDE, I found that the look and feel of KDE is always worse than GNOME. After a while playing with several desktop settings, I realized that the most important thing that must be configured correctly at the first place is Font. No matter how fancy the desktop decoration is, if it comes with bad font rendered, it looks bad all the time. This is because text is everywhere, and the natural thing we do when seeing the desktop is to read. Web browsing, files management, programming, etc., a lot of things requires font to be correctly and nicely rendered.
I used to think KDE renders font worse than GNOME. I'm still not sure about it. But in KDE, it is possible to set fonts so that they are rendered almost similarly to GNOME. Here are my settings base on Droid fonts.
Anti-aliasing with system-wide settings (System Settings) renders very ugly. I had to enable KDE's anti-aliasing, with RGB sub-pixel rendering and Full hint.
The text is now clean, clear, and very pleasant to read.
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