When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic
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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
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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.
