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How to change the height of various toolbars in an Opera skin?

Sunday, 5. April 2009, 12:38:48

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The height of toolbars in current default skin is large compared to previous default skin and it can be reduced to increase browsing space.

Create a backup of your current skin or the skin you want to change the height of toolbars.

  1. Extract skin.ini from zipped skin file.
  2. Reduce the values of Padding Top and Padding Bottom under the sections mentioned in the following table. You can also specify negative values.
    Toolbar Section
    Menu bar [Menu Button Skin]
    Main bar [Mainbar Skin]
    Personal bar [Personalbar Skin]
    Tab bar [Pagebar Button Skin]
    Address bar [Addressbar Skin]
    Navigation bar [Navigationbar Skin]
    View bar [Viewbar Skin]
    Status bar [Statusbar Skin]
  3. Update skin.ini in zipped skin file.
    You can't update an active skin.
  4. Activate modified skin from Tools > Appearance... > Skin or using Skin button.

See Opera Skinning article to know more about basics of skinning Opera.

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Comments

Nerak 5. April 2009, 12:39

Awesome! Thank you, Tamil! :yes:banana

Tamil 5. April 2009, 12:42

Nerak 5. April 2009, 12:47

:lol:

Tamil 5. April 2009, 12:52

Chas4 6. April 2009, 05:10

banana + monkey =

Very usal posts as always Tamil

Tamil 6. April 2009, 12:50

Anonymous 6. April 2009, 18:56

Patrick writes:

does this work with mac?

Tamil 6. April 2009, 21:07

:yes:

angel292005 6. April 2009, 23:16

banana banana banana :up:

Tamil 6. April 2009, 23:28

Nerak 7. April 2009, 06:20

:frown: I just slipped and fell on my ass because of all of your banana peels, Tamil! Clean up after yourself next time! GOSH! :cry:

Tamil 7. April 2009, 07:38

Nerak 7. April 2009, 08:09

Hehehe...'Sokay! I was only teasing!

Tamil 7. April 2009, 08:12

Nerak 7. April 2009, 18:21



Anonymous 10. April 2009, 03:53

Anonymous writes:

Ah, thanks. But how can we make the depth of the search box dropdown bigger, so that it exposes more of the available searches without needing to scroll down? And the address bar dropdown too, come to that?

Tamil 10. April 2009, 09:14

Not possible.

Anonymous 14. April 2009, 19:50

Anonymous writes:

Okay, thanks for the confirmation anyway. I'll give this a try instead: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/how-to-convert-the-search-field-into-a-button-in-the-opera-search-panel

I use a vertical Personal Bar (with lots of search fields on it), so having both the Panel open and Personal Bar on takes a lot of space. Is it possible to have a button/hotkey which toggles the Panel on/off (open to the Search Panel) *and* toggles the Personal Bar off/on at the same time?

While I'm here, and just for the benefit of other Opera visitors here (I'm not associated with mikko211), I see there's a cool new version of SearchEdit available: http://my.opera.com/SearchEdit/blog/searchedit-v-0-4-released

Tamil 15. April 2009, 01:37

Create a button or keyboard shortcut with the following action. 
Set alignment, "hotlist", 6 & View personal bar, 6 | Set alignment, "hotlist", 0 & View personal bar, 0

Chas4 15. April 2009, 02:18

Why is there a monkey next to your name Tamil?

Tamil 15. April 2009, 11:50

:zip:

Nerak 16. April 2009, 05:25

Because Tamil pwns. That's why. Stop asking questions and give him bananas. banana

Chas4 16. April 2009, 05:38

how many banana s? I don't think 2 is enough

Nerak 16. April 2009, 05:50

I saw we chip together and purchase Tamil a banana tree. Then he'll never run out. :yes:

Anonymous 18. April 2009, 04:15

Anonymous writes:

Thanks Tamil, you're a star :).

Using the list here http://operawiki.info/AllActions , I tweaked it slightly so that it would always open the HotList at the Search panel, rather than the last panel viewed. Here it is in full, in case others may find it helpful (I called my button "HotSearch", and used the "Search Web" icon) :-

View personal bar,6,,"HotSearch",Search Web & View hotlist,0 | View personal bar,0 & Focus panel,"Search"

night wolf 21. April 2009, 21:40

yow Tamil I have a Off topic Question ..


...where was the place for reporting abusive Opera user's ..so the moderator's could remove them?
ThanX

:D banana

Tamil 21. April 2009, 21:46

Go to his/her about page and click block user button. To ban them you have to post here.

Nerak 21. April 2009, 21:56

Ummm...I guess I'm lazy, but can you please tell me how to go about putting a couple bananas by my name like you've got your monkey, Tamil? I know I could figure it out, but I'm way too tired and unmotivated right now. :frown:

night wolf 21. April 2009, 21:58

ThanX Tam P:
And yes do tell :D I wanna know as much as Karen dose P:

Tamil 21. April 2009, 22:02

/* Thanks to http://my.opera.com/Furie/ */
a.username[href="/Tamil/info/"]:after {
    content: url(http://my.opera.com/community/graphics/smilies/monkey.gif);
    padding-left: 4px;
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;
}
/* --- */

Nerak 21. April 2009, 22:06

Thank you, Tamil. You pwn more than anyone else on the planet. :heart:banana

Tamil 21. April 2009, 22:08

night wolf 21. April 2009, 22:15

Ah yes :up: Got it :yes: banana

Tamil 21. April 2009, 22:17

Nerak 21. April 2009, 22:22

Ditto! :yes:

Thank you again, my super stealthy & awesome friend! :yes::heart:

Tamil 21. April 2009, 22:29

:wink:

jkforde 23. October 2009, 18:34

Hi Tamil

Thanks for the padding tip, works well. Is it possible to modify the background of tabs bar so that the background element is transparent.... idea being the tabs (I've mine on the bottom) would seem to rest on top of the bottom of the pages.

:whistle:

Tamil 24. October 2009, 23:02

Can you upload screenshot?

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