Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 18th Sep 2009 18:51 UTC
You all know that I don't particularly like Opera. I find the product to be lacking polish, over-complicated and without the marketing pizazz that has made Firefox a household name. That's just my personal opinion, and that opinion has garnered many complaints of unjustness. To that end, to present a fairer discussion I would like to put a simple question to the community: "What should Opera do?".
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The gtk-qt-engine[1] can make all gtk+2 apps look pretty much the same as your qt4 apps. All gtk+2 and qt3 themes that I've seen so far are incredibly ugly, but qt4 has some nice themes and the gtk-qt-engine helps to de-uglify my gtk+2 apps.
Apparently, the gtk-qt-engine calls qt4 to do the actual drawing of the gtk+2 theme, and that's why it can make all your gtk+2 apps look pretty much like your qt4 apps. But Opera uses a qt3 interface, IIRC. If Opera uses a different theme than all your other apps, then that's another good reason to be unhappy about it (the first reason being that Opera is not Free Software).
[1] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9714