Please let us modify the new Splash Screen
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I do not know where/how you get the dark, 7.2-like splash screen. I still get the bright/grey one on macOS with both the latest stable (7.3.3635.7) and snapshot (7.4.3653.3) Vivaldi versions. I tried with an empty profile, it only made it disappear faster but as far as I can tell it is still not dark.
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@gorg said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:
I still get the bright/grey one on macOS with both the latest stable (7.3.3635.7)
Just to add a confirmation to this: I have the same with macOS Sequoia and Vivaldi (both latest stable version). It seems to not have the gradient and seems to be much brighter.
On older Vivaldi versions, it was like @npro posted a page before here. Now it's brighter gray and for private windows purple (like before).
Because my Vivaldi is so fast I have a hard time catching the splash screen, but here is at least a catch while the window got drawn.
Don't get confused by the transparency, that was during the window-draw-animation, but you see that it's much brighter than the Windows version it seems.
Again: I, personally, am not bothered by it because I never really see it because it's so fast on my system, but just wanted to confirm the observation for Mac. But I have to admit I preferred the darker one from previous versions because I didn't have that tiny “flash” when opening new windows. Just was better for the general dark theme impression.
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@gorg @WerewolfAX this sucks. At least on Linux you have to use a dark OS theme for it to be dark, have you tried it on your Macs? Other than that maybe it is a specific bug related to just macOS, and some dev should be made aware of it (or help troubleshooting) in a dedicated thread or something, or report is as a regression if you know it was working fine before. https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/
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@npro said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:
At least on Linux you have to use a dark OS theme for it to be dark, have you tried it on your Macs?
Oh, you're right! Thanks for the hint! If you switch to dark theme for the whole OS, it is a dark splash screen in Vivaldi too! So this works too on Macs. — I think it would be cool to override this in the browser, though, to use the browser-theme instead of the OS theme if you're mixing those.
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@WerewolfAX said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:
to override this in the browser, though, to use the browser-theme instead of the OS theme if you're mixing those.
Ideally it would be nice, but by the words of a dev:
@Ruarí said in Minor update (2) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 7.3:
The startup screen is before Vivaldi theme loading and follows the OS themeing defaults.
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@maniac0 What's your problem - I think "Made with
in Europe" is a good statement that I support. -
Vivaldi Snapshot 7.4.3653.3 on linux. I see new dark splash screen
It's okay.Thanks everyone in this thread who wanted dark splash screen back
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@stereiss said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:
@maniac0 What's your problem - I think "Made with
in Europe" is a good statement that I support.People thinking that the problem is a political one is the problem. My issue is not with the message in itself, I wouldn't like any message even if it is as simple as putting "loading...".
Again, the issue for me is not political, is that any text you put there is distracting. With this update they made it that the message is less distracting, I would love to just remove all the text altogether, but hey, I'll take my win and thank the team for the effort
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@maniac0 To be honest, I don't understand what a message during the loading process is supposed to distract from; but I am glad that we are on the same page in terms of content.
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@stereiss said in Please let us modify the new Splash Screen:
@maniac0 To be honest, I don't understand what a message during the loading process is supposed to distract from; but I am glad that we are on the same page in terms of content.
A big red heart flashing you for a fraction of a second is very distracting, and your eyes sees there is a message written with a very contrasting color, making the message 'stand out' and capturing unwanted attention. Once you see it then you can't un-see it
Thankfully, now it's less distracting and not that annoying like it was before
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