Tweaking widgets

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:58:15 AM

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The image shows the analog clock you can get from the Widgets download page for Opera 9. The clock comes with three skins, which can be consecutively activated by left-clicking the clock. The one on the right has two little tweaks, done by editing the contents of the widget zip file.

Removing the text is very easy, this is directly taken out of the html file. Activating the fourth (hidden) skin for the clock requires a little bit more, but should also be easy enough for the tweakers among us to figure out. This transparent skin makes is much nicer to keep the clock 'pinned' without really obscuring your normal windows.

Note: I had some trouble taking a screenshot, so this is actually two (parts of) screenshots pasted clumsely together.

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Comments

Aux Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:41:37 AM

Khm, very nice! I love "easter eggs" (:

RamūnasRamunas Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:06:37 PM

Widgets are cool but most of them laggs as hell on my slow pc.

Tamil Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:04:46 PM

Thanks for sharing.

Karbonadekaraj Friday, February 17, 2006 10:11:14 AM

That's really nice smile

Julian Rickardsjrickards Saturday, May 13, 2006 3:16:57 PM

How do you keep a widget like this on top of all windows so that it is always visible? Is this possible?

Rijk Saturday, May 13, 2006 6:11:33 PM

Yes. This is an option in the context menu of the widget (right-click on the widget).

Julian Rickardsjrickards Monday, May 15, 2006 12:04:30 AM

Excellent! Many thanks.

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