Praise the Opera Team, transparency now really works!

Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:57:11 AM

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What a great day! Todays snapshot (Build 3216) fixes the transparency issues like it was promised. Now transparency works with all tabbar positions (but of course still only on operating systems supporting it, mainly Windows Vista and Windows 7).

This is only a minor update to make the benefits of this new snapshot available to you. I will be busy today and therefor unable to make a version with bigger changes. The new solution for the statusbar in the new build needs some work to fit this skin well, I will look into this tomorrow and offer a an update then.

For now enjoy the full transparency:

Download: Z1-Glass v1.19 (save to your <Opera directory>/skin folder)

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.

Z1-Glass 1.11 for Opera 10.5 Build 3206Get Z1-Glass 1.20 via auto-install

Comments

Z1-AV69 Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:14:37 PM

As of now, there is no posting for the new build 3216 at the Desktop Team blog, but it must be coming soon. The download link for the new build is: (Windows MSI) http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/Opera_1050_3216_en.exe

Lukášlukaydo Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:42:31 PM

really really perfect !! smile up

Kai OckendorfOckendorf Saturday, January 30, 2010 2:04:26 PM

Thx...really great!!! I am using your skins for a few weeks now and they are the best yes

Asires Saturday, January 30, 2010 2:21:44 PM

Great! yes

Ranzfailmail Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:17:50 PM

The only thing missing is a semi transparent background loading page

Who likes to see an all white/green background when things are loading up?

smile

max1c Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:25:06 PM

great job with a skin:yes:
I have 1 issue evony.com when using ur sking its impossible to read there =\ can this be fixed ?

Unregistered user Saturday, January 30, 2010 5:01:38 PM

niqu writes: cool

malsumis Saturday, January 30, 2010 5:50:07 PM

sweet. Two issues though.

1. It's probably normal that it's not always transparent, right? I mean when it's maximised.
2. Somehow xontrol buttons (close, maximize, minimize) don't work with this skin. Anyone getting this?

Hector Macias Ayalahectormacias Saturday, January 30, 2010 6:59:05 PM

Awesome skin.

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Saturday, January 30, 2010 8:31:14 PM

Originally posted by malsumis:

2. Somehow xontrol buttons (close, maximize, minimize) don't work with this skin. Anyone getting this?



This a known issue with the new transparency mode and will be fixed at a later date.

king-ag Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:16:20 PM

good

Z1-AV69 Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:08:26 PM

Originally posted by failmail:

Who likes to see an all white/green background when things are loading up?


No white/greed background over here, could you provide a screenshot?

Originally posted by max1c:

I have 1 issue evony.com when using ur sking its impossible to read there =\ can this be fixed ?


I can read the page here just fine, is it a blurred text issue? Some had such issues but I couldn't find a reason yet. Could you provide a screenshot or specific link? What font are you using?

Originally posted by malsumis:

1. It's probably normal that it's not always transparent, right? I mean when it's maximised.


With todays snapshot it should be always transparent.

max1c Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:31:55 PM

Originally posted by Z1-AV69:

I can read the page here just fine, is it a blurred text issue? Some had such issues but I couldn't find a reason yet. Could you provide a screenshot or specific link? What font are you using?


http://www.filedump.net/dumped/123121264893676.png
yes issue happens in game itself and also u can check it out in youtube http://www.filedump.net/dumped/12312311264894149.png the numbers are transparent and either u can see them or not deppends on color of wallpaper =\ and i mean desktop wallpaper not opear speed dial one.
Edit: im using standart font of Win 7 and Opera and ur skin if it was changed anyhow from standart Opera font.

Z1-AV69 Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:15:03 AM

I see, it's a known issue, it's the same with dark background and dark text of pdfs opened with the adobe plugin. I don't know how it could be fixed through the skin, I filed a bug report (DSK-277964).

Putrianggun LavenderPutrianggunlavender Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:18:31 AM

yeah.....

techlawsam Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:35:37 AM

Love it!, I favor it over the Aero Glass theme you made !

thanks a bunch opera team!

UPDATE: I put opera 10.5 pre-alpha on a HP TouchSmart computer(Windows Vista 32-bit) build 3216 with Z1-Glass theme 1.19.

When I applied the theme and checked around for any problems I found that the window control buttons dont work in the skin. I cant "X" out , "minimize", or "maximize".

here is a screenshot below:

http://files.myopera.com/samMD/files/Z1%20glass%20theme%20119%20window%20buttons%20dont%20work.PNG -

www.nenelinux.tk ®nenericardo Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:42:19 AM

is the best skin EVER!!! bigsmile

Lukášlukaydo Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:55:28 AM

ok i dont know if its only my problem, but i have 1px white border around every opened tab as you can see here:

Z1-AV69 Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:27:51 AM

@ SamMD: See this: http://my.opera.com/Z1-AV69/blog/show.dml/7122511#comment17417611

@lukaydo: Everyone has the white line. It's from the way I made the rounded corners effect. It's not possible to really make the corners of the whole page rounded, the white line is part of creating the illusion. It's a drawback I'm willing to take until someone has a better solution?

Unregistered user Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:03:40 AM

Antineutrino writes: Great Skin! Are there any plans to support the start bar properly? http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4733/startbari.png

Z1-AV69 Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:18:34 PM

Startbar buttons will be fixed next update.

Keep 'em coming. wink

Unregistered user Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:28:51 PM

Peter writes: Oh I love this! Will this ever work on Linux?

Z1-AV69 Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:09:36 PM

I don't know much about Linux, but it will depend upon wether Linux gets something like Aero transparency.

Petter Nilsenmitchman2 Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:14:14 PM

Originally posted by samMD:

When I applied the theme and checked around for any problems I found that the window control buttons dont work in the skin. I cant "X" out , "minimize", or "maximize".



Read above.

Unregistered user Sunday, February 7, 2010 10:38:51 AM

Anonymous writes: will it be transparent on windows xp?

Z1-AV69 Sunday, February 7, 2010 10:56:20 AM

No, Windows XP doesn't have the required Aero functions.

Unregistered user Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:53:30 PM

Vaxter writes: @Z1-AV69 Linux has something like that long, long time before Aero existed even as an idea.

Unregistered user Monday, November 15, 2010 9:55:43 PM

ratata writes: is there a program out there that will get this transparency on xp Ive tried viglazz trans-bar y shadow true transperincy ext. viglince non of these programs out there work is there a program out there to get this to work on xp

Z1-AV69 Tuesday, November 16, 2010 4:56:30 PM

Originally posted by anonymous:



is there a program out there that will get this transparency on xp

I think I remember someone writing about such a program somewhere, but I don't remember any details.

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