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Opera Standard 10 Slim Skin

Wednesday, 9. September 2009, 15:35:09

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Opera Standard skin with

  1. Smaller toolbars.
  2. Clear Speed Dial (without border, number and close button).
  3. Thin drag bar [ ... ].
  4. Buttons without borders in tab bar tail.
  5. Yellow attention color.

Opera Standard Skin
Opera Standard skin

Opera Standard Slim Skin
Opera Standard 10 Slim skin

Download skin from Opera Standard Slim skin page or click direct download link.

Known Issue: Speed Dial State 2 won't work with this skin due to side effect of hiding Speed Dial number.

You can get Speed Dial background shown in screenshot from here.

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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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Auto-hide toolbars in Opera

Monday, 30. June 2008, 04:48:14

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You can auto-hide any toolbar in Opera after enabling it via keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture or button.

Buttons

You can add buttons to any toolbar (main bar, tab bar, address bar, navigation bar, view bar, status bar, start bar or panels) except menu bar & personal bar simply by dragging button links to required place. Clicking on the button links without dragging will add the buttons to Tools → Appearance → Buttons → My Buttons for later use.

When you try to add a button, a dialog box with following message will popup. Press OK to add button.

Adding new button with action

[Action]

Do you want to proceed?
To remove a button, right-click on it and select Remove From Toolbar.

You can find several custom buttons in Opera Wiki and TTT-Buttons.

Keyboard shortcuts / Mouse gestures

Create new keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures in Application section with following action codes.

Toolbar Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture Button
Short Long name
Menu bar Enable menu bar & Delay, 12000 & Disable menu bar MB Menu Bar
Main bar View main bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View main bar, 0 Ma Main Bar
Personal bar View personal bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View personal bar, 0 PB Personal Bar
Tab bar View page bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View page bar, 0 TB Tab Bar
Address bar View address bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View address bar, 0 AB Address Bar
Navigation bar View navigation bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View navigation bar, 0 NB Navigation Bar
View bar Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 & Delay, 8000 & Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0 VB View Bar
Status bar View status bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View status bar, 0 SB Status Bar

To modify auto-hide time, change Delay, X value (time in milliseconds) in above code. You have to edit Toolbar Configuration file to modify button name or delay value.

To hide/show a toolbar without auto-hide use the following.

Toolbar Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture Button
Short Long name
Menu bar Enable menu bar | Disable menu bar MB Menu Bar
Main bar View main bar, 6 | View main bar, 0 Ma Main Bar
Personal bar View personal bar, 6 | View personal bar, 0 PB Personal Bar
Tab bar View page bar, 6 | View page bar, 0 TB Tab Bar
Address bar View address bar, 6 | View address bar, 0 AB Address Bar
Navigation bar View navigation bar, 6 | View navigation bar, 0 NB Navigation Bar
View bar Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 | Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0 VB View Bar
Status bar View status bar, 6 | View status bar, 0 SB Status Bar

If you drag & drop buttons with short name to a toolbar from Tools → Appearance → Buttons → My Buttons, space will be added to button name.

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Jul 1, 2008
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