Z1-AV69

Z1-Glass 2.00

Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:42:46 PM

Opera 10.5, Skin, Z1-Glass

Z1-Glass gets a major update, called 2.00. Hope you like it.

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Z1-TEN 2.50Z1-Evenes: Modified standard_skin with transparent speeddial

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Anonymous # Sunday, February 28, 2010 11:42:27 PM

llkobe writes: Great job! But it still has a bug: the letters an unreadable on youtube videos.

steppenrob # Monday, March 1, 2010 10:38:56 AM

I think that bug is still as a result of an Opera bug. I am loving the fact that Personal bar folders are readable now! Can you make this same change (changing Personal bar font color to white) on Z1-Ten as well?

Z1-AV69 # Monday, March 1, 2010 1:30:47 PM

Originally posted by steppenrob:

Can you make this same change (changing Personal bar font color to white) on Z1-Ten as well?

I think I will put over some of the updates to Z1-TEN too, this would be one.

steppenrob # Monday, March 1, 2010 3:49:49 PM

I personally like the blue text instead of the blue dot. It's a nice compromise between the dot and the full tab re-colour.

0oO0 # Monday, March 1, 2010 7:09:39 PM

Really great work! Many thanks. But there is a litte bug: If the Opera window is maxmized and full with tabs, there is no chance to double click on the 1 pixel height top title bar space to resize the window where you normally can click into. So now you have always to click on the resize icon on the top right corner to resize the window from maximum. The problem is only in this skin but not in the TEN-skin.

Z1-AV69 # Monday, March 1, 2010 7:13:02 PM

Yes, I changed that recently. Peoples opinions are mixed on this issue, there has been a lot of discussion in the Desktop Team Blog. But you can change that in opera:config: search for "chrome" there and change opera:config#UserPrefs|ChromeIntegrationDragAreaMaximized from 1 to 2.

0oO0 # Monday, March 1, 2010 7:20:48 PM

Wow. Great. Many thanks. Will this be fixed in a future version of the skin or is it a problem with the Opera version?

Z1-AV69 # Monday, March 1, 2010 7:27:32 PM

It's a matter of the skin, simply a design decision.

udka # Monday, March 1, 2010 8:49:12 PM

Oh thx 4 this tip. I wondered about the same thing. It's very irritating that it is not working like in the other skins. Would be cool if this can be fixed to Opera standard config at the next releases. I (and apperently Opera too) think it is much better to handle with this function. It's the best skin I ever saw! Thank you for this work! Keep it up!

Anonymous # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 8:24:47 AM

Anonym writes: I feared that it's a bug in Opera. I'm also thinking the same than the others. It's a much easier workflow if you've not exactly to target a little symbol to resize the window and so I'm always using a double click on the top. Don't know when I was using the resize icon last time. I think that the most users don't know how they can fix this issue. Don't know why you changed this standard function used by all typical windows, but would be nice if this could be changed again. But apart from that it's really a very cool skin!

Z1-AV69 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 8:41:31 AM

The top-pixel thing was reverted to standard in v2.02. Since that is controlable with opera:config#chrome, it's better to keep the standard behavior in the skin.

Anonymous # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 9:20:19 AM

Anonymous writes: Great. Thx!

coolmyll # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 12:42:57 PM

Some text when loding a page in the background becomes unreadable.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38605/2010-03-02_143953.jpg

Is there any option to make them bold? I think it will be more readable.

Z1-AV69 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 1:17:01 PM

It's not really possible to make text on transparent background fit every wallpaper, your wallpaper color is indeed especially problematic. I can only offer you advise what to change in the skin.ini: search for "#80c0ff" (which is the textcolor in question) and replace it with a color you like more. You can do that for every place where the term "#80c0ff" is used in the skin.ini.

coolmyll # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 1:58:18 PM

Thanks. I dont get why it has to change color anyway. It ok staying white for me.

Z1-AV69 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 2:00:42 PM

The change was necessary since I removed the small dots. It doesn't show the attention-state without the text color. If you don't care about the attention state, you can simply use the system color scheme to make the text white again.

Anonymous # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 3:25:18 PM

RelaX writes: Could You, please, take out these 'lines': http://img522.imageshack.us/i/operam.png/ I know they are there, to make effect of glass... but I don't like them, plus they are the ones, who make text in pdf unreadable(at least for me). Basically, I want plain transparent skin, with no glass imitation :P PLEASE!

Z1-AV69 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 3:51:43 PM

That lines are from Windows. You can use a custom visual style without them like I do. A link to the windows visual style of my choice is in the sidebar of the blog.

But that won't fix the .pdf issues, that is a problem with Opera.

0oO0 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 4:26:41 PM

Thanks for the fix with the top pixel line. But there is another little issue with the colors in the adress bar. It's very difficult to differ marked text from unmarked text because the background color of the adress bar is nearly the same than the color of the marking. The cursor is also hardly visible because of the same reason (Win XP):

http://www.imagebanana.com/img/v4mnxe6x/glassadress.png

The left text is unmarked. The right text is marked.

Z1-AV69 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 4:28:34 PM

The marking color is from your OS, you can change it there.

0oO0 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 4:35:42 PM

Hm. I don't want to change the color configuration for a whole OS only because of a browser skin. Is it possible to change the background color to white like it is in the search field? At least than these two fields are looking the same style.

0oO0 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 5:16:34 PM

I saw that the address field in the TEN skin has a white background. But I didn't found the correct setting in opera:config that I can change the background color of this input field in the Glass skin. Can you please help me a little bit?

Z1-AV69 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 5:18:29 PM

You can edit /border/addressfield.png to your liking.

0oO0 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 5:26:42 PM

Perfect. I copied the adressfield.png from the TEN skin to the Glass skin. Great. Thank you very much!

Z1-AV69 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 5:29:10 PM

Interesting, I didn't think of this. At least you know what you are doing when using exotic colors.

0oO0 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 5:34:02 PM

My XP color configuration comes from XP Zune theme. So like it is now everything is perfect and working very well.

sebt # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 5:56:05 PM

Great skin for Win7! Unfortunately I'm going to need a better gfx card

Any chance the 1px white border around the inside of the rendering area can be removed? It's fine on white pages, but looks kinda ugly on dark pages.

Edit: I notice now that the border is 1px black and then another 1px white. It might work without either of these, so the page seamlessly blends into the transparent border.

Seb

Z1-AV69 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 6:04:48 PM

The white/black border fakes the rounded effect of the page corners. In the skin.ini is a comment under [Browser Skin] explaining what to edit to get rid of them.

sebt # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 6:21:24 PM

Thanks! Like the rounded corners but prefer not to have any black/white lines so I've commented out as suggested.

Anonymous # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 7:28:37 PM

Anonymous writes: hi, great skin. however since upgrading to full 10.5 version, the personal bar looks weird, it has borders. it did not have them in the beta version..see pic below please. Is it possible to have it look like before(the lower pic). http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1656/76149677.png Thanks

Anonymous # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 10:59:48 PM

Anonymous writes: Hmm...looks good, but I don't like how the close tab button only appears when you hover over it. And I don't like how the new tab button doesn't have a border over it, and doesn't have any effects when you hover over it. Sorry for nitpicking, but I'm just trying to provide my input. I think I'll stick with 1.53 for right now. :)

0oO0 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 11:22:29 PM

Exact this little things are the reason why this skin is so much better than many other skins. I love this hidden closing buttons and discreet tab symbol. Looks very tidy and elegant. Such little detailed things are the reason why I like this skin very much.

Z1-AV69 # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:05:53 AM

Originally posted by anonymous:

the personal bar looks weird, it has borders

I changed it in 2.00. You can edit the skin.ini as follows to get rid of the borders:

[Personalbar Button Skin]
;Type = BoxStretch
;Tile Center = border/toolbar-button.png
;StretchBorder = 6
Margin Left = 0
Margin Right = 0
Margin Bottom = 0
Margin Top = 0
Padding Left = 4
Padding Top = 2
Padding Right = 4
Padding Bottom = 2
Spacing = 2
Text Color = #000000

Z1-AV69 # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:09:07 AM

Originally posted by anonymous:

Sorry for nitpicking, but I'm just trying to provide my input.

Thats fine for me, input is good. I cannot satisfy everything though. But in case of the new tab button, I agree it needs a hover. It's missing since I put in "Glow On Hover = 0". I think a border wouldn't be good there, but something should be done.

Anonymous # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 9:23:45 AM

AnonymnÃ writes: Hi, in some flash applications I have changed text color from (especially) black to white(or something like that) according to wallpaper color. :( anything I can do? BTW great job, I like this skin :))

Z1-AV69 # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 9:34:19 AM

Originally posted by anonymous:

anything I can do?

Both you and me can't do anything.

We have to wait for a fix from the Opera devs.

w1ll1a9m # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 7:04:10 PM

i think theres a bug with the youtube's runtime indicators (numbers) and with the comments or quotes inside de video, they are all white, you cant read them properly.

the skin is awesome btw!!!!!

thnkx

ZinerytAJSmithy # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 9:42:51 PM

Excellent skin, it's really great!

I know this isn't particular to the skin, but is it possible to change the grey of the blank workspace area?
Many thanks

Z1-AV69 # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10:38:19 PM

Originally posted by AJSmithy:

I know this isn't particular to the skin, but is it possible to change the grey of the blank workspace area?

Not in the skin, I would like to find a way too.

Lukenaarcissus # Thursday, March 4, 2010 3:05:25 AM

Very nice skin. Best ones I've seen.

I would like to know if there is an easy way to take the personal bar buttons from Z1-Ten and use them in Z1-Glass? Could I just swap pngs around or would I also have to edit the ini?

I really like this skin, but the button borders for the personal bar just throws the whole thing off.

Thank You.

Z1-AV69 # Thursday, March 4, 2010 8:06:57 AM

You would need to edit the skin.ini. Search for "[Personalbar Button Skin]" and comment ther first 3 lines out by adding ";" at the beginning of the line. Then the borders will be gone on nornal state.

Anonymous # Thursday, March 4, 2010 8:37:01 AM

Anonym writes: Nice idea. Tried the same but nothing happened. Changed to another skin and back, cleared cache and restarted the browser but is still looking exactly the same than bevore.

Anonymous # Thursday, March 4, 2010 12:45:01 PM

Anonym writes: Now it works. Had to restart the PC. Strange.

Lukenaarcissus # Thursday, March 4, 2010 2:07:49 PM

Looks much better. Thank you. I didn't have to restart my computer. I just modified the ini, but made sure to quit Opera before saving. I don't know if that makes any difference though.

Looking @ this now it might look nice to add a a similar halo effect to the side panel icons(similar to the stock personal bar text). Just a thought.

Thanks again for the skin.ini mod and for the quick response.

mpdeimos # Sunday, March 7, 2010 10:16:46 AM

hey,
first of all great work! ike this skin very much.

have a lil question: how do i add a close button next to the closed tabs button?
like in this pic http://shup.com/Shup/292036/11027111432-httpfiles.myopera.comZ1-AV69filesGlassZ1-Glass_24.png-Opera.png

have searched quite a lot now but no luck

Z1-AV69 # Sunday, March 7, 2010 10:53:51 AM

In fact that button on the screenshot is no "close Tab" button, but you can have that there. Here is the button Close Tab button. Click the link and then put it where you want it. On hold this button will close all but the active tab.

mpdeimos # Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:33:23 PM

thx,
what does your button do then? i quite liked the idea of having a central close button in fact lots of tabs are open and i just want to close a few (instead of hitting ctrl+w all the time)

Z1-AV69 # Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:48:05 PM

On click it closed all tabs, on hold all but the active. I had removed it recently, but I think I will keep that button up there now, at least on my big screen system.

Anonymous # Friday, March 12, 2010 10:53:15 PM

Mod0528 writes: Hi there, In all versions of 10.50 with this skin, looks like there is problems with java? Just giving screenshots Opera standard http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/2586/standardo.jpg and Z1-Glass http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3820/71115787.jpg

Z1-AV69 # Saturday, March 13, 2010 12:18:12 AM

Please read the known issues with transparency: http://my.opera.com/Z1-AV69/blog/2010/02/13/transparent-speeddial-in-evenes-standard-skin

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