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One of the bigger annoyances Opera users on Linux have been struggling with is the dependency on Motif for plug-ins to work.

A recurring question is which of the Motif flavours should I use? - we have a full page to document installation thereof; there are some detailed instructions on how to get it up and running, and how to deal with conflicts, on forums of some distros; our own my.opera forum is full of people looking for help…

Well - there is good news!

Opera is getting rid of this dependency: Opera 9 will make life much easier to all those Linux users, and plug-ins will not require the presence of Motif in any of its flavours to be installed.

And there is more: this is just one of the surprises you can expect to see in the next public version :wink:

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Comments

brianj 12. January 2006, 11:46

/me can't wait for TP2 :wait:

haavard 12. January 2006, 15:21

It's not like you can't install an internal build, Brian :wink:

vetler 12. January 2006, 15:22

Well, you should know as well as anyone else that internal builds often are a little flaky. :wink:

brianj 13. January 2006, 07:34

Originally posted by vetler:

Well, you should know as well as anyone else that internal builds often are a little flaky.


Yes - I think I'll stick to (semi)-official builds for doing work. Internal builds are fun to play with and try to break though p:

pholie 13. January 2006, 19:47

Hey, when talking about linux improvements, I'd like to finally have some standard automatic way of adding opera in menu (KDE, GNOME...), this should be distro-independent, not like it is now. opera.desktop file would be fine.

Next, what about finally enabling native qt styles by default? That would be awesome.

csant 13. January 2006, 21:32

Hey, when talking about linux improvements […]



this is just one of the surprises […]
:wink:

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