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Opera Standard Slim Skin

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

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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

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Comments

tomasprague Monday, June 23, 2008 11:29:07 AM

hi
Thank you! yes
coffee

Pallab DeIndyan Monday, June 23, 2008 12:23:21 PM

Nice work. Using it now.

Sergio Uribesuribe Monday, June 23, 2008 1:10:49 PM

great skin! thanks!

Cyro Monday, June 23, 2008 4:06:59 PM

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

CharlieBAMAToNE Monday, June 23, 2008 5:56:08 PM

Nice!

Bill PBill_P Monday, June 23, 2008 11:23:17 PM

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 Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:00:10 AM

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

TreeGo Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:41:43 AM

Very nice ... thank you. smile

KryptoKnightAleksOD Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:44:08 PM

Thanks for the skin smile

gun Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:19:42 PM

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 Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:29:33 PM

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 Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:44:35 PM

The_Blur writes: Great work! The smaller the better.

creegah Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:54:03 PM

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

rseiler Friday, June 27, 2008 3:00:58 AM

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 Friday, June 27, 2008 12:44:15 PM

@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 Friday, June 27, 2008 6:15:41 PM

@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 Friday, June 27, 2008 10:38:55 PM

@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

jcboogabug Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:07:24 PM

Very nice.

jcboogabug Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:29:13 PM

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 Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:33:42 PM

Yes. sherlock

Edit: Fixed.

nizamx Saturday, July 5, 2008 12:52:41 PM

Tamil can you make main bar slim too.

jcboogabug Saturday, July 5, 2008 2:51:29 PM

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

nizamx Saturday, July 5, 2008 3:07:50 PM

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 Saturday, July 5, 2008 3:39:11 PM

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 Saturday, July 5, 2008 3:45:26 PM

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.

jcboogabug Saturday, July 5, 2008 5:51:30 PM

@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.

jcboogabug Saturday, July 5, 2008 5:59:02 PM

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 Saturday, July 5, 2008 6:11:59 PM

Sorry, I uploaded wrong version. o

Download again.

jcboogabug Saturday, July 5, 2008 8:55:02 PM

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

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

Tamil Saturday, July 5, 2008 9:08:21 PM

Mine is not cropped. confused

Peter Lowepgl Sunday, July 6, 2008 11:49:12 PM

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 Friday, September 5, 2008 7:58:02 PM

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

Anonymous Friday, September 5, 2008 10:02:46 PM

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

nizamx Thursday, October 9, 2008 3:07:02 PM

Can you add "scroll marker" feature?

Tamil Thursday, October 9, 2008 3:11:59 PM

Did you check new version of skin?

nizamx Thursday, October 9, 2008 9:39:55 PM

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

nizamx Friday, October 10, 2008 9:17:39 PM

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 Sunday, October 12, 2008 7:52:42 AM

I don't know.

Pallab DeIndyan Sunday, November 9, 2008 10:52:06 AM

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

Tamil Sunday, November 9, 2008 9:08:47 PM

Thank you.

kkwet Thursday, February 5, 2009 9:47:05 PM

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

Tamil Thursday, February 5, 2009 9:49:03 PM

Anonymous Friday, May 15, 2009 1:20:49 AM

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

Tamil Friday, May 22, 2009 7:43:02 AM

Are you sure?

Anonymous Wednesday, June 3, 2009 10:10:39 AM

Anonymous writes: It would be nice to make "Opera 10 Standard Slim Skin". Anyway thank you for your skin ;)

Tamil Wednesday, June 3, 2009 10:17:04 AM

I will make after Opera 10 final release.

jonlandrum Thursday, June 4, 2009 1:15:11 PM

Perfect!

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

Anonymous Friday, June 19, 2009 6:43:53 AM

errorsys writes: Not exactly looks fine - some buttons are missing :(

Benben2talk Sunday, September 6, 2009 9:24:34 AM

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)

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