problems with local fonts

[Jason Pepas <j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu>]

hello,

I recently added /usr/local/fonts, added that to my FontPath in XF86-Config, 
and did ttmkfdir > fonts.scale, and cp fonts.scale fonts.dir

the good:

kde and mozilla can see the newly added fonts just fine.

the bad:

kde will not anitalias those fonts, even though they are truetype.  
gnome2 will not see that at all  (I added export GDK_USE_XFT=1 to 
/etc/gdm/Session/Gnome).

so, I must be missing something.  does anyone know what it is?

thanks,
jason pepas