Vivaldi 1.4 gets Theme scheduling
Vivaldi 1.4, the upcoming next version of the popular web browser, will ship with a new theme scheduling feature among other things.
If you run development releases of Vivaldi, you may have noticed the new "scheduled themes" option already in the options of the web browser.
Basically, what it enables you to do is link themes to time periods, and have the browser switch between them automatically.
A simple example where this may be useful is a darker theme for night and morning hours, and a lighter theme for the rest of the day.
Vivaldi does not limit you to two different themes though. You can go all in and pick a different theme for every hour of the day for instance.
Theme Scheduling
The theme scheduling feature is available in the latest development version of Vivaldi. That's Vivaldi 1.4 RC1 at the time of writing.
You may download that version of the browser from the Vivaldi website, or use the browser's automatic update feature if you have a previous development version installed already on your computer.
Select Vivaldi > Tools > Settings or use the keyboard shortcut Alt-P to open the Settings application. Switch to themes when it opens, and locate the new Scheduled Themes option on the page.
You need to check "change theme on schedule" to activate the feature. Vivaldi will switch between a light and dark theme automatically without you having to to anything.
You may use sliders to change the time of the day themes get switched, or add new starting points with a click on the add button.
Any theme available can be selected as a scheduled theme.
You are probably wondering what happens when a starting point is reached. Vivaldi will switch to the new theme based on your configuration automatically.
This happens in the background and is an instant switching. This may be confusing at first, as you have probably never seen a web browser switch a theme automatically.
Closing Words
Theme scheduling is an interesting feature. While I cannot see myself using it for more than switching to a dark theme at night, and a lighter theme at day, others may enjoy switching themes more often than that.
As far as improvements are concerned, it would be useful if the start and end date of each theme would be displayed next to it as well. Also, maybe an option to input the time directly would be nice.
Last but not least, for the chaotic kind, a randomize option could improve things further in the theme input field.
Now You: What's your take on theme scheduling? Interesting feature?
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.