Hello,
is it possible to restore the version 9 gradient fill in the lister title bar?
The new 3D-effect doesn't fit my classic-like theme at all. 
If version 10 allows for more customization than ever, it should'nt remove options which existed in version 9. 
Many thanks in advance!
10.0.0.4 (link in my sig) lets you make it completely flat if you want to. There's no option for the Opus 9 Win9x-style left-to-right gradient, though.
Thank you very much!
That will indeed solve a great deal of the problem.
But it would still be great to have the gradients, too.
Yep, I was happy to find that "advanced" flat-style option mentioned in the fixes list of the latest betas.
That glossy style is not mine neither.. I can probably live without that horizontal gradient.. wondered why
it disappeared though.. o)
Because it's not 1995 anymore. 
Yes, you're right.. o)
And flat-style is even better for me.. it's more like 1985!.. o)
No, to be serious. I would have nothing against all those animations, transitions, glossy and glow-effects,
if they would not hit performance or slow me down. I have quite powerful machines, and you just wait for
that GUI to do its "beauty" all the time. That is a no-go for professional users i think.. i even noticed DO10
to be slower when scrolling (smooth-scrolling disabled) than V9, wonder why.. but is another story, but
again that phenomenon of recent software - slower GUIs than in that version before.
You're imagining things if you think the glossy effects slow things down. They are drawn using exactly the same function as the old gradient fills.
Just because something looks glossy doesn't mean it takes CPU power to render. It's just some pixels. 
(Edit: Unless you were talking about glossy stuff in general, not the particular glossy stuff in the file display border. In which case, fair enough.)
Transition animations (as in Preferences / Display / Transition Animations) are rendered using the GPU so they have very little performance impact. (Those animations wouldn't be enabled for you anyway since you're using 'classic' Win95-style Windows themes with desktop composition disabled, and the GPU rendering requires desktop composition.) They do add a brief moment (about 200ms) where the UI is visually changing, so I can see why some people may want to turn them off to avoid that (and there's an option for that), but in that 200ms the directory etc. is usually being read and processed anyway so the effect is often more to smooth things out than to delay anything. (You can also start clicking on things or typing while the transition is happening; it's purely cosmetic.)
By turning off desktop composition, you're also making it slower to switch between applications because they have to repaint every time their windows are revealed. Although there are pros & cons with this; some things to feel faster with composition off, I agree. Windows doesn't seem to run the GPU at as high a frame-rate as it could (or something; I've never looked into it).
I don't know why scrolling would seem slower in Opus 10 as the scrolling code has not been changed AFAIK. It seems as smooth as it could be to me, if I go into a dir with lots of files/folders and drag the scrollbar up and down in Details mode. (After all the information has finished loading, of course.)
