When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic
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stavr0 last edited by
i am on ubuntu 16.04 using unity an i can confirm that opera(45.0.2552.812) takes gtk2 theme settings instead of gtk3. i am not so much into gtk or themes at all but i worked around this by using gtk2 definitions in my dark theme (vivacious-unity-zfusion) from a corresponding light theme.
i replaced original "dark" definition in my themes gtk2 gtkrc file with:
style "dark"
{
bg[NORMAL] = "#DFDFDF"
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (1.05, "#DFDFDF")
bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color
bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.95, "#DFDFDF")
bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#DFDFDF"
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A Former User last edited by
Opera IS supposed to follow gtks's theme since it IS a gtk2 app! The same applies for other gtk2 apps, like ff, chromium, tb, gimp and many more apps that are still made with the gtk2 toolkit. If you check their dependencies, you will notice they all depend on libgtk2.0.
I use numix as gkt2 and gtk3 theme and the problem is still there. Why?
Because opera decides to follow the theme's colors for the selected menu entry and its background, but not for the rest (unselected menu entries and their background). And that is exactly what you see on the screenshots above. Obviously, I do not plan "hacking" a great theme like numix in order to change the looks of ONE app that all of a sudden decided to have a "unique look". -
stavr0 last edited by
of course it is a bug which will hopefully be fixed soon. the background color of the context menu seem to be the only problem in my mind. assuming it would be dark, following dark themes, the rest of the colors (selected,enabled, disabled items) would fit to the theme. i was not aware of which apps use gtk3 and which ones gtk2 therefore i was little be confused about opera using theme settings for gtk2.
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A Former User last edited by
Finally, the compositing and the dark theme bug are fixed in today's opera developer release!
http://i.imgur.com/IcYnjbY.png
Well, in all fairness, it is sad that the bugs had to reach opera stable and affect more users and then "force" the devs to issue a fix.
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A Former User last edited by
After the last update, the menu is shown correctly and the compositing problem was solved in Opera Developer.
When this updates are made on Stable, this topic can be marked as solved.
Thank you.
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quimfernandes last edited by
I use opera 45 stable with dark theme in ubuntu 16.04 and the menu is illegible (very clear) how do I do the update that fixes the bug? Or does the fix exist only for opera developer?
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A Former User last edited by
The bug first appeared when 45 made it to opera developer on early March, but the devs did not fix it until 45 reached stable, thus was available to many more users and received lots of complains.
It was fixed just yesterday on opera developer, so you have 2 choices if the bug affects you too much: either wait until 46 reaches opera stable, or install opera developer today.
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A Former User last edited by
The fix was ported to opera beta which was released yesterday, so now we all wait to either be ported to stable as well or 46 to reach stable.
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A Former User last edited by
I have to ask this...
How many of you have switched from opera stable to opera beta or opera developer now that the bug is finally fixed? -
A Former User last edited by
Omg! The fix was ported to opera stable earlier! The screenshot is from my non-stock opera-stable (I keep opera-beta and opera-developer stock).
Well done to the devs!
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surf-ing last edited by
So build 46.2602, which I gather fixes this problem, now requires GKT-3, while any of the previous builds (I was using 46.2556) was perfectly happy to work with just GTK-2. I think this is bad. The new, higher requirements cut off from opera all Linux distros that don't include native GTK-3. Those are mostly the minimalistic distros (minimalistic not in the sense of "very few users" but rather "low system resource needs"). Is there a possibility to go back to GTK2 in a future build?
# objdump -p opera-developer 46.2556 vs 46.6202 diff < NEEDED libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 < NEEDED libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 --- > NEEDED libcairo.so.2 > NEEDED libgtk-3.so.0 > NEEDED libgdk-3.so.0 -
surf-ing last edited by
(re-posting because the previous post is badly formatted)
So build 46.2602, which I gather fixes this problem, now requires GKT-3, while any of the previous builds (I was using 46.2556) was perfectly happy to work with just GTK-2. I think this is bad. The new, higher requirements cut off from opera all Linux distros that don't include native GTK-3. Those are mostly the minimalistic distros (minimalistic not in the sense of "very few users" but rather "low system resource needs"). Is there a possibility to go back to GTK2 in a future build?
objdump -p opera-developer 46.2556 vs 46.6202 diff 2556 NEEDED libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 2556 NEEDED libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 2602 NEEDED libcairo.so.2 2602 NEEDED libgtk-3.so.0 2602 NEEDED libgdk-3.so.0 -
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A Former User last edited by
May I ask what distro are you on? Most gtk2 apps slowly move to gtk3 nowadays...
Btw, opera-beta seems to depend on gtk3 as well
$ apt-cache depends opera-beta | grep gtk Depends: libgtk-3-0 -
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A Former User last edited by
Not all of the Dark Theme problems were solved. Apparently, there are some parts of the interface which have nearly invisible text. The easiest example is to open a notification, where it will be seen the nearly invisible text. This is happening both with Opera Stable and Opera Developer.
Stable:
Developer:
Apparently, there are still some theme-dependent text. As parts of the interface are theme-agnostic, some combinations are causing this issue. On the notifications regarding the battery, this problem appears too.
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A Former User last edited by
No problems here, on all versions
(how do i upload images on img tags???)
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A Former User last edited by
This problem happens to me because I use a Dark Theme on the system too (Breeze-Dark on Xfce).
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A Former User last edited by
I use a dark theme too (numix). It seems that in order to resolve the dark theme bug, opera's devs hardcoded a theme of their own in the browser. It appears on all menus inside opera that use gtk, eg flash's right clich menu.
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A Former User last edited by
I have the Numix theme available, and it is not dark as Breeze-Dark: with Numix, the background is white/light gray, while with Breeze-Dark, the background is dark gray/black.
Appearance window with Numix:
Appearance window with Breeze-Dark:
The other Xfce theme with this problem is Xfce-dusk, which has colors similar to Breeze-Dark. All other themes, even Ambiance, end being light themes.
Opera's theme being hard coded isn't being the problem, the problem is inconsistency: or everything is hard coded, or nothing is. When some of it is and some isn't, some edge cases may happen.
