KDE + TTFs

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Recently I installed some true type fonts from windows on my linux partition, into usr/local/fonts/ttf ( a directory I created).  Then I used ttmkfdir > fonts.scale; makefontdir;  to generate fonts.scale and fonts.dir.  Finally, I edited my X font server config to include this path.

Now here's the question -- why do only X applications recognize these new fonts? No KDE applications seem to be aware of their existance.  How can I accomplish this?