What to do when KDE3 programs won’t use your Fedora 10 KDE4 colors…

install kdebase3, then type “kcmshell colors” in a console (minus the quotation marks). This will bring up KDE3’s color management module, where you can choose a similar color scheme.

Thanks to Kevin Koffler at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443343