Moesring - Hidden themes?

Hidden themes?

Sunday, 3. May 2009, 22:44:40

Surely My Opera isn't intentionally hiding themes from us?

As part of a new project (think a more sophisticated version of the current CSS Generator), Moesring has been going through all the themes. Writing down names, IDs, that sort of thing.

I'm sure you're all familiar with the current themes. Here's a little something you probably aren't familiar with though.

Go to the Design page and click on a Preview link.
You'll be taken to page like http://my.opera.com/Moesring/account/preview-layout.dml?d=101 (for the Blue theme - your username will be different, of course)

The ?d=101 on the end means "Preview theme #101". By changing the last three digits, you can preview any theme you want - as long as you know its ID number.

Moesring needed to compile a list of ID numbers for his project so he thought he would share the IDs of the themes that are available in the Designs page.

1 - Default
100 - By the lake
101 - Blue
102 - Silver
103 - Opera
104 - Movies
105 - Pink Hearts
106 - Purple
107 - Cat
108 - Robot Attack #2
109 - Robot Attack #1
111 - Mist
112 - Music #1
113 - Music #2
114 - Blue #2
115 - The Darkside
116 - Leaves
117 - New Style
119 - Opera 10 alpha
121 - Early Bird
122 - 16 Bit Ninja
123 - Garden of Dreams
124 - Pirates
125 - Halloween
126 - Future City
127 - Winner
128 - Simple
129 - Flower explosion
131 - L'Amour
137 - Qute
134 - Blue line
157 - In the Shadows

You may notice that there are some missing numbers - 110, 118, 120 and so on. Moesring initially assumed that these numbers simply don't exist. However, Moesring accidentally tried to view theme 110. Sure enough, these missing themes do exist - this is the unavailable theme 110, for example.

Some of the "hidden" themes are not hidden at all - they are the themes for various Opera-run groups. For example, one of the themes is used by The Lounge.

The themes go from 99 to 136 (which, by the way, is one of Moesring's favourite hidden themes ) and from 155 to 157. Of course, there may be more that Moesring hasn't discovered yet. Notice that Moesring has neglected to include the trivial CSS code to start using these hidden themes. Even so, Moesring can't wait to see if any of these themes are unveiled properly.

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Comments

Näsborre # 3. May 2009, 23:37

Huh. Is it something to do with Opera's update of languages available on the site or something? Cause there are eastern characters on the preview banner... Course, that's probably nothing to do with it at all, just a shot in the dark

Moesring # 3. May 2009, 23:41

I guessed that some of them might be only available in certain languages - although I haven't seen anyone in Far Eastern countries using the themes either.

#118 is a T-Mobile theme (in English) so I guess they aren't all for other languages.

Näsborre # 3. May 2009, 23:44

Hmmm... Interesting... We may have to rename you Moelock.

Moesring # 3. May 2009, 23:49

Only if we rename you "

-Kimmie"

Näsborre # 4. May 2009, 00:07

No. I dislike the headbang smiley

Moesring # 4. May 2009, 00:14

Okay then. We don't include the

Furie # 4. May 2009, 02:11

I think some of them are used on groups and blogs for specific Opera facilites. For example, Opera has a deal with T-mobile to provide a special version of Opera Mini.

Furie # 4. May 2009, 02:16

Cstrep was saying there's a super secret feature hidden somewhere in the latest release and you'd have to specifically be looking for it to find it.

I think you should "release" these new themes yourself. Set up the import code for each, and provide a screenshot so people know what they're applying.

ɥʇɐǝp ɟo ssǝɔuıɹd # 6. May 2009, 14:40

oooohhhh~ nice japanese banner...

Aadil # 7. May 2009, 06:19

Sounds like a good idea. It's always fun to unveil hidden secrets.

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(unless you're the woman in Cois's latest photo who's 'secret' is no longer secret!

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r♡se # 8. May 2009, 21:10

Ooh, good snoop job, Moe! Are they appliable?

Moesring # 9. May 2009, 00:23

Technically, yes they are.

Of course, there are probably little outstanding issues with the hidden themes - hence the reason they aren't available for the masses.

theoddbod # 28. May 2009, 22:33

I love doing that kind of thing with websites

. Perhaps the themes were not yet finished?

Moesring # 29. May 2009, 17:02

That's what I was thinking but when I dug deeper, it got even more intriguing.

As far as I can tell, everything was already in place for the themes to be launched. They even produced thumbnail images for the themes.

For example, here's the mini thumbnail for theme 110 - and if you click on it, it takes you to the large preview you would see in the design page.

Furie # 29. May 2009, 17:56

Sounds like a marketing thing to me. You drip feed a couple of extra themes at a time and announce them as new features when you haven't got much going on in an update. The numbering implies that some of these have been around for a while though.

Aadil # 29. May 2009, 21:04

Could it be merely a space thing? Maybe they felt that they had too many up on the themes page.

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Or maybe they were designed a while back and MyOpera staff forgot about them? I wish someone from MyOpera would come and clear this up, I love to know why they're hiding there themes from us.