Ugly transparency in Opera widgets

[Piratini]

Hello. I've noticed one thing in Opera's widgets that ruins all the candy. People say it's something about alpha transparency or anti-aliasing, but I don't know for sure. Here are the screenshots.

Windows XP-something:
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/724/9051largeiy5.jpg

Linux (Ubuntu 8.04.1/GNOME/Opera 9.63)
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/1070/mymc4.jpg

Is this an issue of GNOME compatibility with qt3-apps or is it something more serious than that? Is there a way to fix that? Thanks.

P.S. I tried switching from Compiz to Metacity but it didn't change anything.

[Piratini]

Can't anyone help me? :neutral:

[Mygolix]

I think widget transparency is not supported in Linux with Opera 9. The changelog for Opera 10 says that they have added "experimental support for true transparency for widgets." See http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/u100a1.html at the very bottom of the page.

Actually I was running into the same issue myself, and after installing Opera 10 alpha and running it with the -visual flag, the widgets show up properly. Unfortunately there are a whole bunch of other rendering issues when browsing web pages, so you might want to wait for the actual release before getting it... Or, just run an instance of Opera 10 for your widgets, and another instance of Opera 9.63 for browsing, if this is possible ;)

[PhoenixP3K]

I support Mygolix argument. Widget transparency has been an issue in Opera for Linux since the beginning. I'm glad to hear that it might be fixed for the next version of Opera. However, I keep enjoying widgets that don't make use of transparency :D.