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Getting prettier
Following on from the 10.51 snapshot for Windows. Here is a nice little suprise for our UNIX users. It includes all the Core and Carakan fixes of the 10.51 Windows snapshot, plus a little something just for UNIX: our latest improvements to GTK integration.
Whilst UNIX remains in alpha status for now, we are trying our very hardest to get you something more stable ASAP. So keep an eye out for more big improvements soon.
Highlights
Known Issues
WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.
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Whilst UNIX remains in alpha status for now, we are trying our very hardest to get you something more stable ASAP. So keep an eye out for more big improvements soon.
Highlights
- It looks nicer!
Known Issues
- Carakan crashes on some sites (such as yahoo.com).
- Font problems
- Language input issues
- No .deb or .rpm packages
- No KDE integration (yet)
- Problem with address field drop down position under non compositing Window Managers
- Black drop down menus for some KDE3 users
- Black border around Ctrl+Tab dialog when running under a compositing Window Manager
- Some command line options don't work
WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.
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Changelog
Unix
- Buttons in dialogs have the correct order for a GTK application
- Improved GTK integration when using a dark themes
- The default GTK fonts are now used for menus and dialogs
- The default GTK colors are now used
- Treeview GTK skin support
- Panels use GTK native colors
- Zoom button enabled on UNIX
- Fixed an issue with the old menu appearing on top of the 'O' Menu
Readers' comments
Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.
About this article
| Published in | Desktop Team blog |
|---|---|
| Date | March 11, 2010 |
| Author | Ruari Ødegaard |
| Tags | unix, alpha, 10.51 |
| Original | Internet Archive |
IKoke11. March 2010, 23:58
Zotlan11. March 2010, 23:59
*resumes waiting for KDE integration*
Ruari Ødegaard12. March 2010, 00:01
Originally posted by Zotlan:
I know it can feel like a long wait but it will come.kill10012. March 2010, 00:03
Barraco Mármol Jerónimo12. March 2010, 00:11
Zotlan12. March 2010, 00:11
Ruari Ødegaard12. March 2010, 00:13
Originally posted by Zotlan:
Could you clarify? it doesn't untar?? the build doesn't run??
Oops12. March 2010, 00:15
Zotlan12. March 2010, 00:19
Originally posted by thunpin:
hm, weird, when i tried running it before (./opera in command line) it refused to run, now it works fine. I guess my first downloads got corrupted.
Glad to see the bug with the menu bar re-appearing when settings were saved has been resolved BtW.
Sergio Rafael Lemke12. March 2010, 00:22
The must annoying in the release im actually using are the fonts and unaligned flash(easy to note in mafiawars properties section)
Kudos!
David Terei12. March 2010, 00:22
Sergio Rafael Lemke12. March 2010, 00:26
just a tip for our opera Linux users ;D
Kyle Baker12. March 2010, 00:31
Daniele12. March 2010, 00:32
now I'm waiting for the mac snapshot...maybe tomorrow?
samMD12. March 2010, 00:35
and hopefully mac final comes out so i can install on my schools macs
pios12. March 2010, 00:39
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/5144/screenshotina.png
Strago12. March 2010, 00:41
Joshua Phelps12. March 2010, 00:43
TA5K12. March 2010, 00:46
L2D212. March 2010, 00:51
oceanic12. March 2010, 01:11
Joshua Phelps12. March 2010, 01:20
Originally posted by L2D2:
Actually, they don't come with those pre-installed. Usually, you have to install them yourself. In other cases, they are included I guess.
It's not a big deal for me. Everything works great.
www.nenelinux.tk ®12. March 2010, 01:22
rasive12. March 2010, 01:30
Things i have found so far:
= Major bugs =
- No, or limited, sub-pixel rendering (looks a bit ugly compared to other gtk apps
- A bit laggy when you resize the window (it doesn't redraw instantly, maybe it is a feature?)
- Scrollbar is rendered wrong on some themes (to reproduce this, try running opera with the new wave skin on ubuntu karmic)
- Menu arrows are rendered wrong on some themes (same as above)
= Minor bugs =
- Fullscreen mode is not working as intended
- Submenue draw time is too low compared to other gtk apps (theyt appear too fast)
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Also, do you have any plans for placing the opera menu button (and maybe the tabs) on the window title bar? You could do it permanently, or just when the window is maximized?
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Anyway, i am really looking forward to this! You guys do a great job. Greetings from Denmark
Megaf12. March 2010, 01:32
If you want a good looking fonts, just change it.
I have changed everything to Bitstream font family, it looks cool!
Sigil Thane12. March 2010, 01:33
Abhinav12. March 2010, 01:37
d4rkn1ght12. March 2010, 01:49
samMD12. March 2010, 01:55
hth90nor12. March 2010, 02:16
www.nenelinux.tk ®12. March 2010, 02:21
looks like opera 10.51 in windows
good job guys !!!
Bill P12. March 2010, 02:24
sebt12. March 2010, 02:45
Any word on the proxy issues with the 10.5x line? Still seeing a lot of posts about it and couldn't use final at my work's network behind the (necessary) proxy without it being dreadfully slow.
Can't wait for nice fonts and KDE integration!!
Confirm brief black flashing before menus are drawn. Also (in all linux builds so far) graphical garbage appearing momentarily when menus/popup windows appear (like prefs) and most visibly when resizing the Opera window bigger, or hitting maximise.
Would love to hear that printing/print preview is going to get some love (it's pretty broken). It's a showstopper for my family.
Seb
Poromenos12. March 2010, 02:48
Think about how many bug reports you'd get if only you had .debs/.rpms.
sebt12. March 2010, 02:50
Originally posted by megaf:
The real problem is the fonts used in webpages, whose rendering is nasty compared with 10.10. This is most likely as it's not using KDE/Gnome fonts but just X11 for now.
Seb
sebt12. March 2010, 02:53
Originally posted by Poromenos:
I think this move is fairly logical until release builds are available. The last thing Opera wants is people installing 10.5x into their system only to get a shedload of complaints about how Opera is broken and they don't know how to backtrack to 10.10. Remember, it's still alpha grade snapshots.
If you know what you're doing you can install it "properly" from the tarfiles, or more sensibly just keep opera running in its own folder for now; you can always move the "profile" subdir to $home/.opera later when the final's released.
Seb
Cavan D. Mejias12. March 2010, 02:54
Originally posted by sebt:
Agreed.
Thanks for a new build.
Mustache6112. March 2010, 03:00
Cavan D. Mejias12. March 2010, 03:15
Originally posted by sebt:
Think I've seen that.
netxus12. March 2010, 04:10
FFFFFUUUUUU~
marcorion12. March 2010, 04:10
celiochido12. March 2010, 04:20
f11 does not work properly only hides the bars, but not shown in full screen, openbox
atoyu12. March 2010, 04:50
Nathan Oyama12. March 2010, 05:10
Originally posted by atoyu:
I'm curious. Tell us a little more about it.Daniel Davis12. March 2010, 05:14
Thanks for the Linux love.
italianjob4412. March 2010, 05:27
http://revision3.com/tekzilla/arcade/opera-unite-the-diy-pogoplug-
i also found this...
That's your widget site comparing Chrome to Opera produce bad graphics.
The rest is on my blog...
acaden12. March 2010, 05:34
Tobias C. Berner12. March 2010, 05:44
Position of the dialog to edit a speed-dial url is still off on my two-monitor setup. On the first monitor the dialog to the right most dial-buttons aren't fully visible. On the second monitor they don't even appear.
sebt12. March 2010, 06:03
My feeling is that the leaks lie within JS/Carakan, since Joomla editing has a lot of JS (TinyMCE for instance), but no other plugins.
Seb
negram12. March 2010, 07:17
>Language input issues