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Finally new themes!!! More!

opera 12 beta was the opera next, opera version for the future opera versions.... Anyway, cool themes, though.... Hey, i am using the 64-bit version and it is so good.... When will the stable version will be released???? The beta version has bugs yet, like the ok button when you try to check for the update and it says you have the latest version of opera, the ok button gives no response.... And i hope it also fix the silverlight problem.... It always crash the browser, and also java.com website, it crash on the page that checks if the computer has java or not.... good job Opera team!

It seems I was reading your mind yesterday

http://my.opera.com/BS-Harou/blog/2012/05/02/themese-for-opera-12

No use of these themes yet.

-H/W acceleration does not work (Webgl too slow, like if H/W is disabled) for me, immediatly after applying new themes. (Try Fish IE tank test)

-Just a background image?

-I think there should be a option to make address bar semi transparent as tab bar! this will look more cool.

The theme doesn't cover the whole UI!
The upper parts (Menus and the top header) are not included in the theme.

It's a shame, that classic skins, a great and very versatile feature (though being quite unsupported undocumented for a long time) are being axed (just like Unite and Widgets) to make place for a simple "choose your background" thing - these could be made with right clicking on a picture and choosing "use as theme" just next to "use in speed dial", they require no creativity, just choosing a picture.
And of course all this without the ability to use transparency on any part of the UI.

Originally posted by Dzsini:

It's a shame, that classic skins, a great and very versatile feature (though being quite unsupported undocumented for a long time) are being axed (just like Unite and Widgets)

Skins are still supported and as far as I know, none plans to remove them.

Is it me or I see ONLY background changes?

None of the new themes because they still make the whole UI extremely unresponsive if you don't surf maximized. I often shift and resize my browser window and with themes this is jittery as hell.

Skins, on the other hand, don't have these issues despite they can skin every element.

The themes rendering mechanism seems to need a lot improvement until it becomes usable on something else than a gaming computer with high end graphics hardware. Business computers usually don't have that much graphics power.

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Originally posted by BS-Harou:

Skins are still supported and as far as I know, none plans to remove them.

They are still there, but supported - well, for a long time people are making skins on a trial-and-error basis, because no up-to-date documentation exists on skins:

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/operas-lightweight-themes/ - here they say that the skin system is going to stay side by side with themes. That may be true, but without support on new elements and changes to the skin.ini, it's painful to create (or maintain) skins.
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-skinning/ - The documentation is last updated for Opera 9.5.

Originally posted by Dzsini:

Originally posted by BS-Harou:

Skins are still supported and as far as I know, none plans to remove them.

They are still there, but supported - well, for a long time people are making skins on a trial-and-error basis, because no up-to-date documentation exists on skins:

So true, I host a skin too. What should be updated is documentation, not themes.

Originally posted by m3znaric:

Is it me or I see ONLY background changes?

agree

Why opera developers are calling these themes???

Originally posted by Crsmsg:

Why opera developers are calling these themes???

They are still themes because they also change the background of tab bar etc.

For changes to UI there are the skins. I don't understand the problem. (Except that Themes still need a bit of work and skins updated tutorials)

Do a Final Fantasy 13 theme please!!!!!

I hate it when opera copy things from other browser. Opera is better in innovation.

i also have the opera 12 latest version .. but dont know how to change the theme ........

hey, that kitten is my phone's wallpaper

this article messed up opera's feed reader. I'll show you a few zoom levels:

http://i.imgur.com/lAFdv.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FUhGS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xM7FO.jpg

This sort of thing doesn't look very good. Everyone will dump their wallpaper collections in the theme section, of course without bothering to credit authors of those artworks. This is a useless, non-elegant excuse for customization. Straight out of Mozilla's stupid gimmicky idea stash. Aim higher.

Is the theme's user uploadable? If so i want in.