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Opera 9.6 Qt4 versus NewHuman theme Round 2

Monday, 29. September 2008, 02:35:41

Hello,
It's me again, it appears that Opera Software has answered our calls about a shared QT4 build and for that I'm thankful. Of course, we will be discussing here, ways to customize QT4.

In time, I found one bug, it appears that using qt4-qtconfig to customize the theme I found out Opera is not respecting the "ButtonText" color and it's using the regular "Text" color for the text inside the buttons. That's not cool.

Thanks,
Cyro

*UPDATE*
It appears Opera has dropped support this shared QT4 version, and they are back to static. Shame on you, Opera Software

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Opera 9.6 Qt4 versus NewHuman theme

Thursday, 11. September 2008, 20:54:15

brown, intrepid ibex, native, hardy heron ...

This NewHuman theme for Ubuntu is fantastic, isn't it?
What happens if you use it in a daily basis? Well, OpenOffice.org, Firefox and most of the software behave normally to it. Except for our little friend Opera 9.6(who just became a beta!).

Ok. First, I'm talking about Opera 9.6 beta 1 GCC4, QT4 (i386) on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (but it applies to Hardy Heron as well). The same issues were verified with the Ubuntu Studio theme (which is dark too)

Sharp (Non-native Skin, default to Opera 9.6)
First screenshot shows us a barely unreadable disclaimer screen, which makes it impossible to read. Unless you select all the text.

Then, we get the very fist screen. The addressbar is ugly brown and the sharp skin gets deformed. The Edit boxes and dropdown boxes get all mixed up. In white and brown. Eww.

Random Native Skin
Now, I want to use QT4 to check if it fits the OS better. But, hey, wait. Check out this address bar. It keeps alternating between brown and white background. And you can't see anything. Eww. Again, very ugly. I feel like disabling it at opera:config.
Also, what's wrong with the Speed dial?

This is skin is a native skin made by me, while attempting to change the address bar background colors, I realized only the text-color allows modifications. Tsk, tsk.

It's not over yet. The tooltip also is unreadable. The background is yellow but the text is ~~white~~ gray? And not even opera:config can fix it because since this is a native skin, it's a system setting rule.

To conclude, I wish we had more control over qtconfig in the QT4 build. But I guess we will have to wait until they found about this. I leave a question for all of you: How does Openoffice.org and Firefox can manage that well while Opera cannot?

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