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They are now approaching the final release of Opera 10. Here we have got our updates to all WinVista skins. I must warn you, it's far from perfection. So, more updates will come. Just be patient.

The brand new MSO2010 Silver skin was created to be used not only to match Microsoft Office 2010 but also Windows 7 users. I'm looking forward for your feedback to improve it. Please let me know what you think. Unfortunately, it's also compatible with Opera thumbnail in tabs feature. But this is something that will show up sooner or later.

UPDATED: 2009-07-09

Changelog:
- "MSO2007 Silver" is now called "MSO2010 Silver" & received a major upgrade (check below)
- Added main menu icons (when using alternate menu layout)
- Opera Turbo icons
- Opera Unite & Unite Panel icons (almost all)
- New bookmarks panel icon (finally)
- Misc button fixes
- MSO2010 Silver: New improved scrollbar
- MSO2010 Silver: New white-ish tabs & pagebar background
- MSO2010 Silver: New checkbox
- MSO2010 Silver: New push buttons
- MSO2010 Silver: Wider tabs

Pending:
- "Thumbnails in tabs" feature (still looking for a simpler solution)


Bugs:
- Unite panel button is invisible
- Addressbar Padding bug
- Show main menu icon bug
- Animated Opera Link Sync icon

And don't forget the address bar contains a larger set of Back, Forward, Rewind, Fast Forward buttons you can activate on-the-fly.

Hello,
It's me again, it appears that Opera Software has answered our calls about a shared QT4 build and for that I'm thankful. Of course, we will be discussing here, ways to customize QT4.

In time, I found one bug, it appears that using qt4-qtconfig to customize the theme I found out Opera is not respecting the "ButtonText" color and it's using the regular "Text" color for the text inside the buttons. That's not cool.

Thanks,
Cyro


*UPDATE*
It appears Opera has dropped support this shared QT4 version, and they are back to static. Shame on you, Opera Software

Check out this cool animation of Håkon Wium Lie (a.k.a HowCome) who is the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software and of course, father of Cascading Style Sheets.

Source:

The following post was written in Portuguese. This is some quick reference guide I wrote about Opera 9.5 on Linux. I had to do it, because of the lack of material about it in my mothertongue. I apologize for any incovenience caused.

Instalação do Opera 9.5 no Linux

Como sabemos há pouquíssimos esclarecimentos sobre a instalação do Opera no Linux, principalmente por causa da popularização do Ubuntu.

Antes de fazer o download do pacote de instalação, primeiro é necessário conhecer as diferenças entre os mesmos e para isso é necessário saber algumas informações sobre o seu Sistema Operacional.
São três coisas: versões do SO, GCC e QT.

SO 32 bits ou 64 bits
Existe um comando que mostra qual está instalado.
"uname -m"
- Se exibir x86_64 você tem um SO de 64 bits.
- Se mostrar i686 você tem um SO de 32 bits.

GCC
Depende do Sistema Operacional. Somente os SOs mais novos vem com gcc 4.
Exemplos dos que vem: Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), Fedora Core 7 e 8.
Existe um comando que exibe qual a versão que está instalada, "gcc -v"

QT: Interface gráfica que o Opera utiliza no Linux.
No Opera existem duas versões. A antiga (3), usada até o Opera 9.26 e a nova (4) usada a partir do Opera 9.5.
Qual a diferença entre essas versões de QT?
A interface versão 3 é bem rudimentar e quadrada.
A interface versão 4 é bem customizável e se integra mais ao Sistema Operacional. Exemplos dessas interfaces:
- opera -style plastique
- opera -style motif
- opera -style cde
- opera -style windows
- opera -style cleanlooks

Agora que já foram ditas quais as versões do QT, GCC e SO podemos agrupá-las e numerá-las corretamente em pacotes:

intel-linux (i686)
.1 static - qt3 static build, gcc 2.95
.5 shared - qt3 shared build, gcc 3
.6 shared - qt3 shared build, gcc 4
.9 static - qt4 static build, gcc 4
.10 static - qt3 static build, gcc 4

x86_64-linux
.2 shared - qt3 shared build, gcc 4

Agora, com um pacote selecionado. Você deve selecionar o método de instalação.
São três tipos de arquivo.
- .DEB (Padrão Debian e Ubuntu)
dpkg -i opera-*.deb

- .RPM (Padrão Redhat, SuSe, Mandriva e Fedora)
rpm -ivh opera-*.rpm

- .TAR.GZ (Arquivo compactado, similar ao zip do Windows)
tar -zxvf opera*.tar.gz
Será criado uma pasta com o mesmo nome do arquivo, aí é só entrar na pasta e rodar "./opera"

- .TAR.BZ2 (Similar ao de cima, outro método de compactação)
tar -bxvf opera*.tar.bz2

Today, I did some minor changes in the MSOffice 2007 skins but the reason I'm here is this:

I fixed the mini statusbar introduced during the latest build of Opera 9.50.
I added the following to all skins that I've created and uploaded them again:

[Edit Skin.mini]
Clone= Edit Skin
Padding Top= 0
Padding Bottom= 0
Margin Top= 0
Margin Bottom= 0

[Edit Skin.disabled.mini]
Clone= Edit Skin.disabled
Padding Top= 0
Padding Bottom= 0
Margin Top= 0
Margin Bottom= 0

[Dropdown Skin.mini]
Clone= Dropdown Skin
Padding Top= 2
Padding Bottom= 2
Margin Top= 0
Margin Bottom= 0

[Toolbar Button Skin.mini]
Clone= Toolbar Button Skin
Padding Top= 0
Padding Bottom= 0

[Toolbar Button Skin.hover.mini]
Clone= Toolbar Button Skin.hover
Padding Top= 0
Padding Bottom= 0

[Toolbar Button Skin.selected.mini]
Clone= Toolbar Button Skin.selected
Padding Top= 0
Padding Bottom= 0

[Toolbar Button Skin.pressed.mini]
Clone= Toolbar Button Skin.pressed
Padding Top= 0
Padding Bottom= 0

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR OPERA SKINS!