Skip navigation.

Opera FAQs, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

Cool tips for Opera browser

Opera Standard Slim Skin

Monday, 23. June 2008, 10:50:03

, , , ,

Opera Standard skin with

  1. Smaller toolbars.
  2. Grey color active tab.
  3. More visible lock icon for inactive tab.
  4. Yellow attention color.
  5. Grey color scrollbar. Thanks to rseiler.

Opera Standard Skin
Opera Standard skin

Opera Standard Slim Skin
Opera Standard Slim skin

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

For normal toolbars, use Opera Standard Modified skin.

நல்வரவு! (Welcome!)Reorder categories in My Opera Links page

Comments

tomasprague 23. June 2008, 11:29

hi
Thank you! :yes:
:coffee:

Pallab De 23. June 2008, 12:23

Nice work. Using it now.

Sergio Uribe 23. June 2008, 13:10

great skin! thanks!

Cyro 23. June 2008, 16:06

It will be the perfect skin for my Asus eeePC. Thanks a lot!!!

Charlie 23. June 2008, 17:56

Nice!

Bill P 23. June 2008, 23:23

great reduction of horizontal spacing, what the Opera standard skin should have been.

Request - I'm finding that widthwise the icons on the toolbars are taking way too much space horizontaly compared my previous prefered skin zuper-slim8, could this be changed?

regards,

Anonymous 24. June 2008, 00:00

Morghus writes:

You sir rock. Thank you so much, this is sexy, awesome, sweet and right down my alley ;)

TreeGo 24. June 2008, 01:41

Very nice ... thank you. :smile:

Alexei 24. June 2008, 15:44

Thanks for the skin :smile:

gun 24. June 2008, 18:19

All in all not bad. :wink:

But a few things could be even better:

Most toolbars are really too tiny. The icons do not have enough room vertically. The menu bar also looks very tiny.

Tamil 24. June 2008, 18:29

Originally posted by Bill_P:

I'm finding that widthwise the icons on the toolbars are taking way too much space horizontaly compared my previous prefered skin zuper-slim8, could this be changed?

Do you want to reduce it in a particular toolbar or all?

Originally posted by gun:

Most toolbars are really too tiny. The icons do not have enough room vertically. The menu bar also looks very tiny.

This is to reduce space.

Anonymous 24. June 2008, 18:44

The_Blur writes:

Great work! The smaller the better.

creegah 26. June 2008, 16:54

Tabs could be a little smaller in width.
Otherwise - really nice! Thanks.

rseiler 27. June 2008, 03:00

Narrower tabs? They're already just wide enough to be able to see what the sites are, and that's only if you don't add that many tabs. Any narrower, which would break with standard/classic/native tradition, and the text would border on useless.

creegah 27. June 2008, 12:44

@rseiler
Well, I go by the favicon most of the time to identify the page so don't need the text, but I can see your point.
I have modified a lot of my skins to have narrower tabs and it really makes a big difference.

rseiler 27. June 2008, 18:15

@creegah,
Work with me here, I'm trying to understand. So if only the favicon matters to you (which for me would be a problem, since many times I have tabs open on the same site) then I'm not sure what you're losing by the tabs starting at a readable width and gradually getting narrower as you add more. You'll eventually get to a point where you can really only see the icons anyway, so what advantage is it starting that way? That's the very place I don't want to be, so I'm always trying to avoid having too many tabs.

creegah 27. June 2008, 22:38

@rseiler

Hey, I like to start out with tabs that are smaller....don't shoot.

There are a few skins out there that have narrower tabs included as a feature so I don't think I'm the only one who likes this kind of arrangement.
I did not mean they had to be EXTREMELY narrow so as to ONLY see the favicon; that would be daft - just slightly more narrow.

More than glad to "roll my own". ;-)

...Creegah

jc 28. June 2008, 17:07

Very nice.

jc 28. June 2008, 17:29

Tamil,
One problem with your skin: The trash icon on the right side of the tab bar has the top part of the trash can (the lid) cropped, and it's not vertically centered.

Tamil 28. June 2008, 17:33

Yes. :sherlock:

Edit: Fixed.

nizamx 5. July 2008, 12:52

Tamil can you make main bar slim too.

jc 5. July 2008, 14:51

nizamix, i think the main bar is slim, isn't it?

nizamx 5. July 2008, 15:07

No go customize-toolbars- select main bar and see also below, the bottom bar is the main bar.

http://i30.tinypic.com/2wghlyg.jpg

Tamil 5. July 2008, 15:39

Originally posted by nizamx:

Tamil can you make main bar slim too.

In default location (top) it is slim but when you place it at bottom it is not slim. :sherlock:

nizamx 5. July 2008, 15:45

That's explain why your buttons are fixed size yesterday but it's a bug I think. And too bad for Opera's karma, it'll be avant browser in next life.

jc 5. July 2008, 17:51

@Tamil
You said in your [June 2008, 09:33:42] comment that the trash icon is fixed.
Well, I've downloaded http://my.opera.com/Tamil/skins/get.pl?id=8164 but the trash icon still looks cropped.

jc 5. July 2008, 17:59

Tamil,
your [By Tamil, # 28. June 2008, 09:33:42] comment said "fixed".

The trash icon is not yet fixed. I've downloaded your latest skin, Version: 0.15a, and look at my screenshot.


http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/2346/screenshotoperaskinsopelq1.png

Tamil 5. July 2008, 18:11

Sorry, I uploaded wrong version. :o:

Download again.

jc 5. July 2008, 20:55

Tamil, I see a slight change with the trash icon, but it's cropped.

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/323/screenshotoperastandardsh8.png

Tamil 5. July 2008, 21:08

Mine is not cropped. :confused:

Peter Lowe 6. July 2008, 23:49

May the holy son of the prophet rain smiles upon your mortal being for the rest of all time. Just what the doctor ordered. Or, well, he would've done had he known.

Thanks!

Anonymous 5. September 2008, 19:58

Anonymous writes:

This may sound ungrateful, i like the skin...but can you make another version with opera classic icons please?:D

Anonymous 5. September 2008, 22:02

Anonymous writes:

Nevermind, i've figured out how to change the icons....:cheers:

nizamx 9. October 2008, 15:07

Can you add "scroll marker" feature?

Tamil 9. October 2008, 15:11

Did you check new version of skin?

nizamx 9. October 2008, 21:39

Wow new version also slimmed buttons and main bar, and scroll marker works, thanks.

nizamx 10. October 2008, 21:17

Tamil I want to add Speed status to my toolbar without the text and space that text occupies. I added Speed indicator from customize-button-status-speed then I removed the text "Speed:" from lang file and text gone but the space of those text still not recovered. How to do this?

Tamil 12. October 2008, 07:52

I don't know.

Pallab De 9. November 2008, 10:52

I finally got around to blogging about it. I should have done it much earlier, but as they say better late than never.

Tamil 9. November 2008, 21:08

Thank you.

kkwet 5. February 2009, 21:47

Tamil, can you slim my girlfriend too :whistle: ?... Oops forget about that :D

Tamil 5. February 2009, 21:49

Anonymous 15. May 2009, 01:20

unspecial writes:

on alpha 10 the tabs look quiet big again, can you slim them in your skin?

Tamil 22. May 2009, 07:43

Are you sure?

Anonymous 3. June 2009, 10:10

Anonymous writes:

It would be nice to make "Opera 10 Standard Slim Skin".

Anyway thank you for your skin ;)

Tamil 3. June 2009, 10:17

I will make after Opera 10 final release.

jonlandrum 4. June 2009, 13:15

Perfect!

Edit: Also, looks fine on Opera 10 Beta; not really a need for a new skin.

Anonymous 19. June 2009, 06:43

errorsys writes:

Not exactly looks fine - some buttons are missing :(

Ben 6. September 2009, 09:24

Though generally I run Opera on my eeePC which runs Ubuntu - with the tabs at the left size I have the full height of the screen available (Ubuntu netbook remix has a great 'maximise' windoa option, which has no window borders - switch apps from a toolbar and they simply run fullscreen)

How to use Quote function:

  1. Select some text
  2. Click on the Quote link

Write a comment

Comment
(BBcode and HTML is turned off for anonymous user comments.)

If you can't read the words, press the small reload icon.


Smilies

Download Opera, the fastest and most secure browser

Photos

Motivational and Inspirational Quotes - Team Work... Better For All.jpgMotivational and Inspirational Quotes - Never Give Up.jpgMotivational and Inspirational Quotes - Never Give Up 02.jpg

Countdowns

133 days until 16th birthday to Opera Desktop

Opera

Opera

Opera Blogs

Softwares (Freeware)

  • Opera

    Opera is a fast and safe web browser.

  • PDF-XChange Viewer

    PDF-XChange Viewer is a faster & fully featured PDF Viewer.

  • Notepad++

    Notepad++ is a source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages.

  • StrokeIt

    StrokeIt is an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor.

  • VLC media player

    VLC media player is a cross-platform media player which supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs.

  • Ubuntu

    Ubuntu is a linux-based operating system.

  • Avast Home Edition

    Avast is a complete anti-virus package.

  • TrueCrypt

    TrueCrypt is a on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) program for Microsoft Windows and Linux.

  • AutoHotkey

    AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility that can automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks.

  • Universal AutoCorrect

    An AutoHotKey script that will automatically correct a predefined list of misspellings.

  • XYplorerFree (Last freeware version)

    XYplorerFree is a multi-tabbed portable file manager for Windows.

  • Total Uninstall (Last freeware version)

    Total Uninstall monitors any changes made to your system during the installation of a new application. It allows you to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the supplied Add/Remove program which can leave files or changes behind.

  • Dup Detector

    Dup Detector finds duplicate and near duplicate images.

  • IrfanView

    IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows.

  • WordWeb Free

    WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words from in almost any program.

  • Autoruns

    See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login.

  • Process Explorer

    Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more.

  • Process Monitor

    Monitor file system, registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.

  • VirtualBox

    VirtualBox allows you to run an entire operating system inside your current operating system.

  • Revo Uninstaller

    Uninstall programs even if you have problems in uninstalling.

Softwares (Nagware)

  • WinRAR

    WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions.

  • Sandboxie

    Sandboxie allows you to run any program but all changes that result from the usage are kept in a sandbox environment, which can then be deleted later.

Softwares (Shareware)

  • XYplorer

    XYplorer is a multi-tabbed portable file manager for Windows, featuring a very powerful file search, versatile preview facilities, a highly customizable interface, and a large array of unique ways to efficiently automate frequently recurring tasks.

  • Beyond Compare

    Beyond Compare is a advanced file and folder comparison utility.