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

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    • surf-ing
      surf-ing last edited by

      Above information submitted as DNAWIZ-16093.

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      • A Former User
        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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        • surf-ing
          surf-ing last edited by

          I'm on Puppy Linux, one of its many variants.

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          • A Former User
            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:

            Alt text

            Developer:

            Alt text

            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
              A Former User last edited by

              No problems here, on all versions

              http://imgur.com/a/l0fEI

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

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              • A Former User
                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).

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

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                • A Former User
                  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
                    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:

                    Alt text

                    Appearance window with Breeze-Dark:

                    Alt text

                    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
                      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.

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

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