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Omelion bug report system online again

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As you may know the Omelion bug tracker was offline for months. I found some time to reinstall it on another server. Feel free to fill it with all your Omelion skin related bug reports, hehe. As I'm still traveling it may take some time until I can fix them all. I also installed a new spam filter. Your tickets may land in the spam box. Don't worry I'll moderate them. Don't forget to report your related OS version "Omelion (Windows)" and/or a screenshot, please.

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Why is there no Omelion update?

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I'm traveling through Australia right now. It's basically a bit difficult to find the time and place to update the skin as a Backpacker. I would need a silent place to develop the skin for some days. It's not really easy to find such a place. Maybe I try Couchsurfing or go to the library somewhere. So, I apologize for the lack of skin updates, but the circumstances aren't as good as they should be, hehe. Backpacking and development doesn't really go well together.

If you have any bugs, just post them in the comments with a link to the screenshot. I'll fix them with the next release. Don't forget your OS and Opera version, please.

So I'm off now to Gold Coast and Brisbane. Sorry for the delay.

Omelion 0.9.8.7 + Linux version available

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The next final version 0.9.8.7 is availabe now.

The big news are that from now on there are two versions of Omelion available. The second version is a native Linux edition. Actually I don't wanted to publish more than one skin, but because of some Opera design limitations I changed my mind. So, if you are a Linux-Fan your Omelion skin for your dark or light desktop is here.

Notice: Because of a server problem are all Omelion websites offline (homepage, ticket server) If you need help or want to submit bugs use the comments here, please.

Now have fun ...

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Preview: Omelion for your Linux Desktop?!

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Some days ago I installed the new Ubuntu 11.04 Linux version. And I like it! Despite of the discussion if Gnome 3 or Unity is better .. I'm impressed by the new look & feel of Linux smile

But there was a problem with the design of Omelion. It didn't look well on my new Linux desktop. So I decided to develop an Omelion Linux Edition. Here you can see a little preview of the upcoming Omelion Linux Edition:






Quick and DIRTY Omelion 0.9.8.6 BETA 2 (Update)

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Update: There was a problem when exporting the Beta 1 from internal SVN, so here the Beta 2 with all graphics. All Tabs are beta state, especially left, right and bottom ones. It's still BEta and will be for the next weeks.

This is a quick and dirty Omelion 0.9.8.6 BETA hack. I don't want to let you wait 2 more weeks to get the Opera 11 Omelion Tabs back... As I haven't much time to get it right it's not in SVN and not polished as I want it to be, but it should be useable. Have a nice Christmas smile

You can download Omelion 0.9.8.6 BETA via Opera Skins.


Please read SETUP if you need help.


If you want to follow up Omelion development news, here you get the News Feed of Omelions development page.

Please report bugs and feature requests at Omelions ticket system.

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Omelion 0.9.8.5 the major Opera 11 beta release

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It's done!

The new Omelion 0.9.8.5 release is here. This is the biggest code change release since months. All new Opera 11 Beta features are supported now. All Tab bars recoded and many new graphics designed. There are so many changes, you better read the Timeline or the changeset for massive development details.

If you like this version twitter me or your friend coffee



Don't forget to read the Omelion SETUP for detail setup tips.There are many changes, for details look the changelog here, please.

You can download Omelion 0.9.8.5 via Opera Skins.


Please read SETUP if you need help.

The Changelog details are readable here.

If you want to follow up Omelion development news, here you get the News Feed of Omelions development page.

Please report bugs and feature requests at Omelions ticket system.

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Omelion 0.9.8.4 with a cleaner UI and more O11 features

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Your last positive comments motivated me so much the last two days, that I have taken my time and developed Omelion any further. We are now at version 0.9.8.4 party



This version brings you a new Opera 11 extensions dialog, a more pixel perfect interface, new neat buttons, nicer scrollbars, better readable dialogs and a fixed Tab behavior. I hope all these new improvements will give you a better Omelion experience. Now have fun with this version and leave a comment - if you want to smile

You need more contrast?
Just move your Windows color setting sliders the following way:



Don't forget to read the new Omelion SETUP for detail setup tips.There are many changes, for details look the changelog here, please.

You can download Omelion 0.9.8.4 via Opera Skins.


Please read SETUP if you need help.

The Changelog details are readable here.

If you want to follow up Omelion development news, here you get the News Feed of Omelions development page.

Please report bugs and feature requests at Omelions ticket system.

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Omelion 0.9.8.3 supporting Opera 11 extensions

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Here is the new Omelion 0.9.8.3 version. This version supports new Opera 11 features. Now it's possible to select Tabs the easy way. Maximize Opera, move the mouse to your desktop's border and simply select the Tab. Also Tabs are getting bigger if you are hovering a Tab with your mouse.



There are many more changes, for details look the changelog here, please. I hope, you like these features.

You can download Omelion 0.9.8.3 via Opera Skins.


Please read SETUP if you need help.

The Changelog details are readable here.

If you want to follow up Omelion development news, here you get the News Feed of Omelions development page.

Please report bugs and feature requests at Omelions ticket system.

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OperaUnite panel dream ...

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Ups, today I'm well motivated to design new Opera UI visions. I like the panel, but I also know, many of my friends don't use it. They even don't know about it's existence, what a shame:( Ok, I'm talking off topic ...
Because I have so much fun in designing new visions of some new Opera UI features today, I redesigned the OperaUnite panel in a way I wish it can be designed smile So here is my 2nd one:



Here you can see a new Unite Profile inside the first accordion folder. This is a tiny summary of the actual Unite states and actions. On the right, you see the MyOpera account and its state. Below there you see the Unite-Logfile. It's scrolling the newest actions. The two right handed columns show you the Unite network traffic.

In the next accordion folder "Unite Applications" you'll see all installed Unite applications and their actual network traffic. Clicking the green icon on the left stops or runs this application.The last menu folder is showing your Unite friends. Here you'll find their Unite state, shares and homepage.

We'll see what's Opera showing us at 14th October this year. This announcement motivates me to speculate more. What's your assumption ... ?

PS: I haven't forgotten Omelion 0.9.8.3 ... but I'll wait until the next big snapshot release smile

MyOpera panel dream ...

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While I'm waiting for the next Opera snapshot I was dreaming of something new coming at 14th of October. Here is the result:
This is a MyOpera panel. All your Social Network data in one place. But you also have the possibility to see your friend's online status. And now you can chat with them. This is enabled by using the open source Jabber/XMPP protocol like Google does with Libjingle. But the best thing is, you can voice call your friends using Opera Unite or e.g. Jingle technology. And what's about sharing all your photos, files and other media using this panel via Opera Unite?

Think of it, you download Opera, register your MyOpera account, get all your Opera Link data synced and now you are instantly in contact with all your MyOpera friends. You can insert other social networks easily, you may edit your profile and other online media. You add your friends, you chat with them, you see their news, status and shared data, you can call your friends using your voice and check your MyOpera Mails, ... (dream on in the comments please)

My mind is full of ideas for this feature, but it's a dream, so you have the chance to dream with me smile

PS: It's a quick and dirty mockup nothing more bigsmile

Omelion 0.9.8.2b with new Bookmarks Bar

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With the newest 10.70 snapshot Opera changed the old Personal Bar to the new Bookmarks Bar. I implemented this new feature to Omelion 0.9.8.2b. jester



You can download Omelion 0.9.8.2b via Opera Skins.


Please read SETUP if you need help.

The Changelog details are readable here.

If you want to follow up Omelion development news, here you get the News Feed of Omelions development page.

Please report bugs and feature requests at Omelions ticket system.

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Omelion 0.9.8.2 with optimized locked Tabs and new Mail Panels

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Since weeks I'm testing the new Locked Tabs focus. And finally I decided to step back a bit. Now locked Tabs don't resize anymore on focus. Finally I think it's the best solution.

The new Opera 10.70 snapshot brings us new Mail Panels in accordion menu style. And this new version of Omelion now supports this new feature.



Speed Dial layout was fixed by Opera and now I removed the workaround. It's possible, that this version doesn't look as nice with older 10.6x versions of Opera - maybe.

You can download Omelion 0.9.8.2 via Opera Skins.


Please read SETUP if you need help.

The Changelog details are readable here.

If you want to follow up Omelion development news, here you get the News Feed of Omelions development page.

Please report bugs and feature requests at Omelions ticket system.

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New Opera Skin.ini settings - Build 9044

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With snapshot build 9044 version 10.70 some new skin.ini sections were inserted in skin.ini:

[Accordion Skin] - Main accordion background

[Accordion Button Skin] - Accordion button background / Accordion header background
[Accordion Button Skin.hover]
[Accordion Button Skin.pressed]
[Accordion Button Skin.active]
[Accordion Button Skin.attention]
[Accordion Button Skin.pressed.attention]
[Accordion Button Skin.hover.attention]

Sections with new/corrected options:

[Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin]
margin, padding - corrected

[Speed Dial Search Widget Skin]
margin, padding - corrected

The new accordion menu icons:

[Images]
Accordion button dropdown
Accordion button dropdown.hover
Accordion button dropdown.selected

The new Omelion Skin version 0.9.8.2 is now 10.70 compatible. I'm testing it's usability now. I think, the new version will be published the next weekend. Here a little preview of the new Omelion Mail Accordion menu:

Omelion 0.9.8.1 new small locked Tabs

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Only a tiny changeset because I need to reinstall my PC totally.

Omelions locked Tabs are now very small. This way they don't need much space and you are the one who knows them well smile IMHO a nice feature and I use it often. Please tell me, what do you think about this new feature in the comments.



You can download Omelion 0.9.8.1 via Opera Skins.


Please read SETUP if you need help.

The Changelog details are readable here.

If you want to follow up Omelion development news, here you get the News Feed of Omelions development page.

Please report bugs and feature requests at Omelions ticket system.

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Omelion 0.9.8.0 over 60 new icons and more ...

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Hi, what a nice new version number monkey

For this release I decided to improve Omelion's usability even more. There are 61 new icons now. Most of them within Opera Mail and some of them are anywhere else lol


Omelion has more than 400(!) icons now!

This was much work ... pirate ... but designing Icons is so much fun jester

I'll hope, they are well usable and will improve your Mail and Opera experience even more ... I'm still in icon development, but I think sometimes there are to much icons. I deleted some of them. The upper screenshot is some hours older than the final release of 0.9.8.0 now.

This version is also prepared for the upcoming Opera 10.60 release and the new "O-Menu". Custom buttons have a nicer bookmark icon and the new thumbnails are improved.


I revised and redesigned many icons for better recognizability and fun smile


The new mail icons improve Opera Mail even more. Your Followed Threads, Disabled Threads and Replies are


The lower statusbar is more useable for your buttons and icons now.


Tab thumbnails redesigned


You can download Omelion 0.9.8.0 via the following button.


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The Changelog details are readable here.

If you want to follow up Omelion development news, here you get the News Feed of Omelions development page.

Please report bugs and feature requests at Omelions ticket system.

Follow Omelion at Twitter