Z1-Glass

Friday, January 8, 2010 6:13:00 PM

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The experimental skin I released a few days ago was very unfinished. Today I can offer a more polished version. It contains not only important bugfixes, I also changed the colors. I hope you'll enjoy Z1-Glass.

Download: Z1-Glass v1.00 (save to your <Opera directory>/skin folder)

>> A newer version is available. <<

Warning: This skin is made for Opera 10.5, it will not work in prior versions. Also this skin is made for OS supporting transparent windows, it may look odd without it. In current Opera 10.5 pre-alphas transparency in the inner parts of the Opera window does only work partly, read instructions below.

Changelog: v1.00
- new colors
- fixed corrupting rounded corners
- addressfield and panels with some transparency
- native dialogs
- many minor bugfixes

How to use transparency in current (build 3186) versions of Opera 10.5:
Currently transparency for the "inner parts" of the Opera window works only under some conditions. With the pagebar at it's default position, those inner parts (like speeddial background) will not be transparent but solid black. More information on this matter can be found here and here.

In short:
It works flawless with the tabbar at the right side and thumbs enabled.
It works with the tabbar at the bottom and thumbs disabled.
And it works with thumbs enabled and the tabbar at the left, but you have to switch the tabbar from top/bottom to left after every restart. You can get a button (fullscreen-icon) for tabbar at the left, one press will fix transparency: click me to get the button (Thanks tomu for the idea).

The screenshots show Windows 7 with the soft7 custom visual style. If you are disturbed by a white gradient in your transparent speeddial, you may want to switch to a custom visual style too.

Experiments with the ClearBackground=1 skin-entryZ1-Glass Update 1.1

Comments

NRsuperici Sunday, January 10, 2010 3:02:36 AM

bigeyes wow!
nice work cheers

bachokocho Monday, January 11, 2010 7:18:06 AM

impressive work, man!cheers yes

Pallab DeIndyan Sunday, January 17, 2010 4:47:08 PM

Some publicity cometh: http://techie-buzz.com/opera/transparent-glass-skin-opera.html

Z1-AV69 Sunday, January 17, 2010 5:19:32 PM

Nice posting. Thanks!

I just posted an update btw.

Ranzfailmail Monday, January 18, 2010 12:31:30 AM

Downloaded the latest pre alpha release

Tabs on left won't work anymore

right and bottom without thumbnails still work though

Z1-AV69 Monday, January 18, 2010 8:57:35 AM

With tabs on the left you have to switch the tabbar from top/bottom to left after every restart. The button in the posting can help with that.
Under that condition transparency works fine with the 3199 build here.

Anonymous Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:06:26 PM

Michael writes: Will this work in Opera 10.10, as that's the newest version on Opera's web site?

Z1-AV69 Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:25:37 PM

This skin will not work under Opera 10.10, it's only for development snapshots from the Desktop Team blog: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

Under Opera 10.10 push buttons would be black on black for example, so don't try it.

Aleksander AasAleksander Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:29:48 PM

I'm getting all black for the latest 10.50 snapshot in win7 smile

Z1-AV69 Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:35:14 PM

Have you read and followed the "How to use transparency"-part above? Until now no snapshot changed anything on the matter of transparency.

Aleksander AasAleksander Monday, January 25, 2010 9:01:27 AM

Seems like I had a minor RTFM issue smile Working like a charm now!

Z1-AV69 Monday, January 25, 2010 11:50:39 AM

Great. And thanks for all the publicity! wink

Marcin Kucharskiomen1989 Monday, January 25, 2010 1:46:49 PM

is it going to work on xp?

Z1-AV69 Monday, January 25, 2010 1:49:48 PM

Originally posted by omen1989:

is it going to work on xp?



The transparency works only with OS supporting transparency, so under Windows XP it will not work right. Everything transparent will be flat gray.

Marcus2403 Monday, January 25, 2010 2:24:10 PM

Yup. Gray here. Dammit!

Marcin Kucharskiomen1989 Monday, January 25, 2010 3:32:26 PM

what a pitty:(

Z1-AV69 Monday, January 25, 2010 3:43:42 PM

Yes, and I'm afraid Opera can't do anything on that matter because the transparency has to come from the OS in the end.
But in regards of transparency with any tabbar-position I'm quite optimistic they will make it work after this weekends posting from mitchman2 in the forum thread.

Zimak Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:55:41 PM

pls upload wallpaper smile

Anonymous Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:30:30 AM

Anonymous writes: i used the auto install but instead of any transparency the background is justs black?

Z1-AV69 Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:39:03 AM

I don't know if the auto install got todays update. You need the newest snapshot from the Desktop Team blog and the newest Z1-Glass version. Then it should work without any tabbar switching.

Anonymous Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:57:05 AM

JULIAN!!! writes: HOW THE FUCK DO YOU DO IT!! I CANT FIGURE IT OUT!!!

Z1-AV69 Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:43:56 AM

That was a nice curse, but to help you I would need more information what's going wrong?

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 11:46:16 AM

Asad writes: Hey i got this opera but dont know that how to run it i saved it in my (f) partition now what should i do please tell meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee i realy need it!!!!!!!!! i wana answer soooooooooooooooooooooon pleeeeeeeease..........................!

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 11:47:37 AM

Asad writes: How to use transparency

Z1-AV69 Monday, February 1, 2010 12:06:53 PM

1. Windows Vista or 7 is need
2. You need the latest snapshot from the Desktop Team blog (Backup Opera before installing) : http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
3. Please use the latest version of the skin: http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=9281

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 12:29:45 PM

Anonymous writes: i have window black adetion can't i use this skin in it?

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 12:49:47 PM

Den.ua writes: прикольная задумочка...

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 3:26:51 PM

Ziyaretçi writes: can you share your font type and styles? with Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Fonts options...

Z1-AV69 Monday, February 1, 2010 3:39:45 PM

You can get the font here: http://www.free-fonts-ttf.org/true-type-fonts/handelgotdlig-3323-download.htm

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 6:05:29 PM

Anonymous writes: How do I download it to the opera directory/ skin folder

Z1-AV69 Monday, February 1, 2010 6:08:05 PM

For the newest version you can use the auto-install from here: http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=9281

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 6:14:23 PM

Anonymous writes: ok and how do i send my tabs to the left. Thank you

Z1-AV69 Monday, February 1, 2010 6:19:20 PM

Rightclick the tabbar, in the menu you will find "tabbar placement". But with the latest version of the skin and the latest snapshot from the Desktop Deam blog transparency also works with the default tabbar position.

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 6:25:08 PM

Anonymous writes: Ok thanks I didnt know that but it is still not transparent any ideas

Z1-AV69 Monday, February 1, 2010 6:35:35 PM

Does the standard_skin have a transparent tabbar on your system? If not, it will not work on your operating system.
Other than that, I don't know, with both the newest snapshot and the newest skin version it should work.

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 6:39:11 PM

Anonymous writes: it doesnt show standard skin it shows Native MacOS skin, Opera Standard, and Z1-Glass v1.22. I have downloaded the v10.5 of Opera and the skin from the link you gave me. Are there other steps to aquire this standard_skin transparent tabbar.

Z1-AV69 Monday, February 1, 2010 6:42:20 PM

MacOS, I see. As far as I know MacOS doesn't support transparent windows. I'm sorry.

Anonymous Monday, February 1, 2010 6:43:30 PM

Anonymous writes: Thank you.

Anonymous Tuesday, February 2, 2010 11:11:31 PM

Anonymous writes:

Anonymous Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:15:52 AM

sougata writes: vista can work it?? which version of opera can support transparent ??

Z1-AV69 Thursday, February 4, 2010 8:12:17 AM

It works on Vista. You need a recent snapshot of Opera 10.5 from the Desktop Team Blog: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

Anonymous Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:57:31 PM

Аноним writes: класс!!!!

Anonymous Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:39:17 PM

Аноним writes: ище не пробывал я хз

Nickel Back ● nhat-ky Saturday, February 6, 2010 2:19:23 PM

perfect and by vietnamese : " Hoàn Hảo"

Anonymous Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:15:40 PM

Anonymous writes: switch between various screen sizes-it works for all except when clicked to "maximized." i was able to make it full screen only by dragging the window to full screen. Opera v10.50 3241 Z1- v1.11 Z1- v1.33

Anonymous Sunday, March 14, 2010 9:21:50 PM

Anonymous writes: It works great except it makes the pdf viewer transparent too.

Z1-AV69 Sunday, March 14, 2010 9:40:12 PM

Originally posted by anonymous:

was able to make it full screen only by dragging the window to full screen.

That is a problem with the vista default visual style. Just google for "vista glazz".

Originally posted by anonymous:

It works great except it makes the pdf viewer transparent too.

Thats the known issue with transparency and plugins. It needs a fix from Operas side.

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