well. in kcontrol  > Appearance & Themes > GTK Styles and Fonts it's 
possible to employ different themes for GTK2 and GTK3 applications, and 
this fixes the menu color problem.

What I haven't been able to fix is the tiny fonts problem in TDE 
applications. Additionally, my cursor, in all its variants, has become 
*huge.* 

Very strange indeed. And it came about from first unchecking and then 
rechecking Appearance & Themes > Colors > Apply colors to non-TDE 
applications.

How can this be?
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