Opera Listens: Introducing New Community-Inspired Themes to Opera One
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Opera Comments Bot last edited byWe’re introducing new, community-inspired Themes to Opera One. Featuring a true Dark Mode Theme for those of you who prefer browsing late.
Read full blog post: Opera Listens: Introducing New Community-Inspired Themes to Opera One
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mathias87 last edited byVery nice and even more eye-calming than the blue-ish dark design before.
But I cannot change the background of the startpage anymore with one of these designs, correct ?
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KenedSF last edited byThe Mirage theme is very beautiful. I was waiting for an all-black theme like this.
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weilan last edited byI don't get it. Since version 100 the UI of Opera has problems. You can't move the mouse cursor to the topmost edge of the screen and successfully focus on the Minimize, Maximize, Close or Opera Menu buttons. It only works on tabs. Opera 99 and the versions prior did not have this problem. When I posted about this on the forums, my post was deleted.
How can the developers of the browser keep adding new features and pretending something so important is not a problem? All other browsers - Chrome, Brave, Firefox and everything else has this properly and it's not a problem. This is a base requirement for any application - as soon as you have it maximized, all the buttons that are at the edge of the screen must be accessible when the mouse is dragged to the edge, which is why the Close button and the Menu button are on the two corners of the screen - for usability reasons so you can use them without spending extra energy and effort to look where you're positioning the mouse cursor. Microsoft Office does this too with their menu.
For me this is unacceptable. I want to use Opera, but this new UI since version 100 is making it impossible for me. I've tested this both on Linux and Windows and the behavior is exactly the same. Please, Opera, fix this problem before adding new features to the browser.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@weilan Things are slightly better in Opera GX. The search in tabs, minimize, maximize/restore and close buttons work as expected. The + button on the tab bar, the expand/collapse toggle for a tab group, the Opera menu, the right-most toggle on the address bar, the sidebar panel buttons, and the back button when the sidebar is hidden are all still an issue though.
So, it seems like it should be possible to fix some of the things in Opera One too.
Vivaldi's developers do tests on these things when there are interface changes. Sometimes they don't catch an issue at first, but they usually fix it when reported. I would like to see the same in Opera.
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mathias87 last edited by
Can someone please explain why I don't have the newly introduced themes on the same Opera version??? I don't understand.
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weilan last edited by
The problem is Opera GX is not officially supported on Linux, I have to run it through Wine or Proton, but it's far from ideal.
Also Vivaldi on Linux Mint Cinnamon has the same problem with its buttons, I haven't used Windows in almost 2 years, so I can't say how it's behaving there or if the problem is relevant.
I don't know the technical side of this problem, because I don't have the know-how, but my guess is the UI has some invisible frame on everything that has 1 pixel border on the end and it somehow doesn't affect the tabs, because they got the least change from the rest, but all the other things got changed too much and were affected by it.
I also don't understand how most people don't see this as an issue, I always learned to use browsers maximized and drag the mouse to the top right corner without looking at it and when a program doesn't behave like this, or in this particular case - Opera used to behave like this, but does not anymore, I immediately notice it and usability decreases significantly for me.
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DerSchlingel last edited byI'm glad they've introduced this rather calm and flat dark theme. All the others seem so flashy too me and I ask myself: Does really anyone use one of those animated themes with all this noise that they're producing?
I mean they're not looking that bad, but I feel they're slowing down my laptop and all these sounds in the background or when typing are no music to my ears. But maybe I'm just too old for this kind of stuff. -
andrew84 last edited by
@DerSchlingel said in Opera Listens: Introducing New Community-Inspired Themes to Opera One:
I'm glad they've introduced this rather calm and flat dark theme
I guess the same result can be achieved using the classic theme (edited) in dark mode.
@DerSchlingel said in Opera Listens: Introducing New Community-Inspired Themes to Opera One:
I feel they're slowing down my laptop and all these sounds in the background or when typing are no music to my ears. But maybe I'm just too old for this kind of stuff.
I have the same opinion.
Instead of introducing more and more predefined themes it'd better to improve the editing and customizing options, currently it's very limited.
I don't understand why there's is such big attention is paying. The themes creating tool should be open source so enthusiasts can create a bunch of cool themes. And there can be dedicated section on the opera addons page. -
DerSchlingel last edited by
@andrew84 That’s what they do over at Vivaldi. They give a bunch of customization options for designs and themes as well. Heck, they also have a community based catalogue (themes.vivaldi.net).
I don’t think you can create such a black colour with the classic theme actually. It’s always a very dark flavour of some other colour.
I feel myself more and more drawn to a more simplistic UI. So I‘m trying out Brave for now. -
MehrzadS last edited by
I think in addition to video animated background, you should implement custom fragment shaders like some of these beautiful ones implemented in https://www.shadertoy.com
