Ambiance Opera Skin restores desktop harmony

By , Published May 27, 2010

Opera came out top in our 'What is the fastest browser on Linux?' test-a-rama conducted a few days back and since then a number of you have decided to take it for a whirl.

Theme

Opera 10.5x no longer uses QT for it's interface meaning it integrates with the default DE much better.

Sadly this isn't as perfect as Chrome or native GTK browsers but Opera user (and Ubuntu fiend) Kyle Baker has created a simple script that modifies the default Opera skin to flawlessly match the default Ubuntu 10.04 Ambiance theme, like so: -

On his blog Kyle says: -

€œThe only change to the skin (thus far) is the tab bar background which now allows for a smoother appearance between the tab bar and window title.€

Download

You can download the Ambiance theme by hitting the link below.

Download

Speed Dial

Kyle has also created some excellent speed dial backgrounds that compliment the theme wonderfully. You can grab those on his blog, too.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • https://launchpad.net/~jaymac Jaymac

    Doesn’t work if you use the Bookmarks bar, which stays the same colour, so it’s no good for me unfortunately :(

    • Anonymous

      I’ve posted an updated version that should address this and several other things if you’re interested in trying it out (the link in my blog is updated).

      • http://www.google.com/profiles/tjvj717 Quadunit404

        Whoops, replied to wrong comment.

  • http://devolute.net devolute

    I’d love to see something similar for the popular Shiki Colors theme ( http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/shiki-colors?content=86717 ) as the Opera menus currently look awful.

    Ideally, it’d be nice to have proper GTK integration. It was so close this time.

    • bhm

      What do you mean? “Noise” and weird colours in them?
      I think I fixed them actually lately. Ctrl+F12 >Fonts and change Open “something” to any other – Droid i.e. Change in skin preferences Color Scheme to None. AFAIR it worked for me.

  • Anonymous

    This looks great, good work Kyle.

    Until Opera has RequestPolicy, I’ll stick with Firefox. So it’s a no for me sorry.
    http://www.smashingdownloads.com/2009/07/13/12-useful-firefox-plugins-for-safe-browsing/

  • kk

    Actually, I think the default Opera skin looks rather good (though now, as the window buttons moved to the left in Ubuntu, the Opera menu icon looks a bit out of place).

    However, I’m glad that Kyle did it again.

  • kk

    Also, just to add about Opera is that the gtk menus are slow (compared to any other application for example) – try to move your cursor up and down any gtk menu in Opera and you see it’s a bit laggy.

  • Anonymous

    O!M!G!I just tried Opera 10.53 and it was one disgusting experience. The menus suck as do the windows generated by Opera, the fonts suck (some kind of noise there), it broke my mails, theres no (-)-notrayicon option, can scroll down, but not up with the wheel …How do you guys put up with these regressions?Well… it’s a beta, but damn! This looks like a pre-alpha.If there’d be an acceptable mouse gesture extension for chromium, I’d get rid of Opera if they’re releasing 10.5 like this. But all the mouse gesture extensions for Chromium are bad (slow & buggy). :/

    • https://launchpad.net/~jaymac Jaymac

      There is a no-tray option.

      Type opera:config in the address bar, then search for ‘tray’ and uncheck the box.

      The fonts are completely fine for me, but I fiddled around with the settings after I installed it.

    • http://rzcuadrada.tumblr.com afgomez84

      It’s easy to know that you’re using the old 10.53 version of opera 10.5x development road, the last (ultimate development no webM version of opera it’s 10.54, you can find it hera http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/snapshot-6340/.

      Fonts problem are real … but when I change default settings and use Aller font, everything goes right the way

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t work if your tabs are placed on the bottom either. Not for me, at least.

  • daas88

    I haven’t tried latest opera yet. Is it stable enough?

    • bhm

      10.54 6340
      Never crashed. Fonts are rendered better. Flash works as always.

      • daas88

        Nice!
        Is there a ppa?

  • Anonymous

    haha, thanks for the coverage! Its still a work in progress, so if you’re interested in this skin then be on the lookout for fixes.

    • Anonymous

      There are now more backgrounds and the skin has been updated to fix several problems.

  • Anonymous

    cool

  • dRewsus

    Is java enabled in 10.5x yet?

  • Warren

    make the tabs into tab screenshots by dragging the bar taller. The fix stops working because the colour fix just sorta stops!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks. It works great with opera 10.6, perfect look’n'feel.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/tjvj717 Quadunit404

    This breaks the new mail panel in Opera 10.70. Mind updating this for Opera 10.70?