Z1-Evenes: Modified standard_skin with transparent speeddial

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The standard_skin of Opera 10.51 has come a long way since the first alphas. I'm truly impressed how well they solved most of the glitches that made me want to make my own skins back in the day. The version of Opera 10.51 added a new coloring, which grabs toolbar colors and such from your OS. In the screenshot above Opera is colored in a very light gray instead of the default blue, but there is no recoloring needed anymore, it gets that color from the Win7-Blend visual style I'm using. From what I can test here, it looks great on both Windows 7 and XP - on XP I find the toolbar coloring even more impressive. So if I want to use a more conventional skin than Z1-Glass, I would prefer the new standard_skin over my own Z1-TEN right now.

But there are still some glitches I want to fix for my personal needs and I of course want a transparent speeddial. So I made this modified version, called Z1-Evenes:

Download Z1-Evenes @ MyOpera skins

Features / Fixes:
- transparent speeddial just like Z1-Glass (but the plugin-bug too; DSK-277964)
- If opera:config#Chrome Integration Drag Area Maximized is set to 0, the tabs reach the very top of a maximized window
- panel header has the same height as addressbar for common fontsizes (but not with decreased icon-size)
- tiled MDI-windows without gaps
- fixed cycler
- bigger icon for panel toggle button at other places than statusbar
- Pagebar head button that works with hidden titlebar
- Personalbar does not overlap close, minimize etc. buttons when placed at the right
- better looking zoom-slider
- fixed panel selector spacing when at the right
- works with combined addressfield like the option in Z1-Glass (use only the combined_addressfield_toolbar.ini from there).


As with Z1-Glass Speeddial transparency only works on operating systems supporting it (Windows Vista & 7). To have a transparent speeddial with a maximized window in Vista, you need a custom visual style or at least use Vista Glazz.

A few words on the plugins-issue (DSK-277964): Just like Z1-Glass this skin suffers from a bug in Operas implementation of the transparent window background. In any plugins like flash (see youtube controls) or Adobe Reader dark text and dark elements are transparent instead of the expected solid and dark color. This is not fixable in the skin (other than disabling speeddial transparency) but needs a fix from Opera. We were promised a fix a while back, but I don't have any news on this. Please complain to the Opera devs about it, since I can't fix it, any complaining here is mostly wasted...

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Comments

Z1-AV69 Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:35:34 PM

If you were using the transparent background for images or other transparency .css, please update the .css files for this skin.

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:44:45 PM

Anonymous writes: The thing is strangely not downloading. I'm using Opera 10.51 RC2.

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:52:50 PM

Anonymous writes: Never mind, it was a bug from the RC not allowing me to download it if I opened another tab.

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:14:26 PM

Anonim writes: could you give me your wallpaper?

Z1-AV69 Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:38:54 PM

Unregistered user Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:44:14 AM

Anonim writes: thanks!

Z1-AV69 Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:46:59 PM

I'm fine with my notepad2 editing, but I'll give it a try. A nice skin-editor could definitely be helpful for starters.

Negi Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:23:32 AM

How precisely did you change it so the titlebar was replaced with the big O?

Unregistered user Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:16:24 AM

manson writes: zoomwallpapers isnt working... try http://www.wallpapersweb.com

Z1-AV69 Wednesday, October 20, 2010 4:35:02 PM

Works fine here, I miss bigger resolution wallpapers on that page... wink

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