When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic
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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.
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A Former User last edited by
You are right. I just switched to arc-darker, a theme that is entirely dark and the problem of your images appears here as well.
