<![CDATA[When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic]]>Hello

I am having a problem when using a dark theme on Xubuntu 16.04 both with Opera Stable and Opera Developer.

With Opera Stable, many text boxes's text become nearly invisible, due to the white background with white text. This is frequently a issue when searching text. The white text can be seen here, visible only due to the fact no matches were found.

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With Opera Developer, using the Opera's dark theme, this issue don't happen, but another is happening: the menu options are invisible. Invisible because of white background with white text. The only way to see them is hovering the mouse over the option. Here is a screen capture with the problem (the compositing problem was already discussed in another topic, I hope it is solved).

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The strange thing about the Opera Developer bug is that the Stable acts correctly: it uses the system's theme, which then shows the menu correctly:

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Informations about the system:
OS: Xubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Window manager: xfwm4
GTK theme: Breeze-Dark

Opera Stable version: 44.0.2510.1449
Opera Developer version: 46.0.2573.0

If the Opera Developer uses the menus as the Opera Stable is using, I believe the Developer version will be completely compatible with dark themes. The same if Opera Stable has the text boxes corrected.

PS.: I hope the images don't make this post look horrible.

Thank you.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/20379/when-using-the-system-s-dark-theme-opera-becomes-problematicRSS for NodeMon, 14 Sep 2026 10:26:14 GMTTue, 25 Apr 2017 14:45:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Sat, 03 Jun 2017 05:36:14 GMT]]>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.

https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122728https://forums.opera.com/post/122728Sat, 03 Jun 2017 05:36:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:12:13 GMT]]>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:

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Appearance window with Breeze-Dark:

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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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122707https://forums.opera.com/post/122707Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:12:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Fri, 02 Jun 2017 04:52:08 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122635https://forums.opera.com/post/122635Fri, 02 Jun 2017 04:52:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Thu, 01 Jun 2017 23:00:20 GMT]]>This problem happens to me because I use a Dark Theme on the system too (Breeze-Dark on Xfce).

This is the most complete guide I have found about Markdown.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122618https://forums.opera.com/post/122618Thu, 01 Jun 2017 23:00:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Thu, 01 Jun 2017 05:19:14 GMT]]>No problems here, on all versions

http://imgur.com/a/l0fEI

(how do i upload images on img tags???)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122518https://forums.opera.com/post/122518Thu, 01 Jun 2017 05:19:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:27:05 GMT]]>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:

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Developer:

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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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122501https://forums.opera.com/post/122501Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:27:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Tue, 30 May 2017 05:36:13 GMT]]>I'm on Puppy Linux, one of its many variants.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122348https://forums.opera.com/post/122348Tue, 30 May 2017 05:36:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Mon, 29 May 2017 11:49:26 GMT]]>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
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122277https://forums.opera.com/post/122277Mon, 29 May 2017 11:49:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Mon, 29 May 2017 11:12:43 GMT]]>Above information submitted as DNAWIZ-16093.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122267https://forums.opera.com/post/122267Mon, 29 May 2017 11:12:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Mon, 29 May 2017 09:12:17 GMT]]>(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
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122254https://forums.opera.com/post/122254Mon, 29 May 2017 09:12:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Mon, 29 May 2017 09:07:24 GMT]]>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
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122252https://forums.opera.com/post/122252Mon, 29 May 2017 09:07:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Thu, 25 May 2017 15:56:53 GMT]]>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!

http://i.imgur.com/YNjNAkW.png

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121856https://forums.opera.com/post/121856Thu, 25 May 2017 15:56:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Thu, 25 May 2017 08:41:32 GMT]]>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?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121812https://forums.opera.com/post/121812Thu, 25 May 2017 08:41:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Thu, 25 May 2017 04:39:02 GMT]]>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.

http://i.imgur.com/gLyGi9X.png

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121799https://forums.opera.com/post/121799Thu, 25 May 2017 04:39:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Wed, 24 May 2017 15:51:42 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121748https://forums.opera.com/post/121748Wed, 24 May 2017 15:51:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Wed, 24 May 2017 12:04:56 GMT]]>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?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121724https://forums.opera.com/post/121724Wed, 24 May 2017 12:04:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Wed, 24 May 2017 02:31:31 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121706https://forums.opera.com/post/121706Wed, 24 May 2017 02:31:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Tue, 23 May 2017 12:57:25 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121653https://forums.opera.com/post/121653Tue, 23 May 2017 12:57:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Mon, 22 May 2017 13:14:03 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121519https://forums.opera.com/post/121519Mon, 22 May 2017 13:14:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Mon, 22 May 2017 10:35:11 GMT]]>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".

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121500https://forums.opera.com/post/121500Mon, 22 May 2017 10:35:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Sun, 21 May 2017 22:26:03 GMT]]>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"
}

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121455https://forums.opera.com/post/121455Sun, 21 May 2017 22:26:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Fri, 19 May 2017 21:16:35 GMT]]>The same here. Opera with Numix (or any other dark one) system theme is unusable. Have to launch it with
env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
to make texts in menu readable.
The program window generally behaves weird (maybe because of the compositing issue), e.g. it's impossible to take a region screenshot with the menu open.
On top of all these, strange thing happens with the red "O" logo when enabling sidebar:
http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot2017-05-2000-38-05.php
Overall, Linux version of the browser feels quite unpolished and not really ready to be labelled "stable".
P.S: Many years ago I was taking part in the discussion regarding UIQ support, which has been dropped eventually. Now it seems that Opera is not really bothered with Linux support either, for the same issues travel from build to build. I really love using the Opera Browser, but such attitude from devs is unpleasant.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/121253https://forums.opera.com/post/121253Fri, 19 May 2017 21:16:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Mon, 15 May 2017 05:27:17 GMT]]>@ag7878
No, nothing new. This bug and the compositing one first appeared when opera 45 entered developer, which was on early March. It is mid-May, opera 45 has passed though beta, reached stable and the 2 bugs are still there. Plus, they remain unfixed even on opera 46 (on developer and beta today), which means that in case they fix them, they will appear on opera 47!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120792https://forums.opera.com/post/120792Mon, 15 May 2017 05:27:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When using the system's dark theme, Opera becomes problematic on Mon, 15 May 2017 05:15:22 GMT]]>This Dark Theme problem has existed for over a year while using UBUNTU. I am currently using Ubuntu 17.04. I used to use Opera as my primary browser but the illegible text issue put me off so I quit using Opera about a year ago. I am now back because I love the speed of the browser and its simple design and I was hoping that the issue had been fixed, but it hasn't. Really, it's just a question of putting dark backgrounds in the small text boxes, something that has just been overlooked. Please fix this simple problem so that the browser is usable and I will continue to use it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120789https://forums.opera.com/post/120789Mon, 15 May 2017 05:15:22 GMT