Opera Skins

at first sight, this skins doesn't look sexy or efficient. I was using another skin far more popular. But i was tired, too much gradients, too much volumes. So i decide to try this one, specially for the look of the page bars, that are next to what i was looking for. Clean. And now, i've been using it for 6 months, and i just cannot have another skin. The panel and the page bar are just efficient with this light orange border to show the active one. The icons are easy to recognize, and well drawn. The overall skin has a very efficient use of space. All is perfectly balanced. This skin is just perfect and an example to follow (e.g. the same with other sexier icons would be nice). 5 stars.

Love the skin BUT.....

Placing the mouse cursor over a scroll bar causes it to 'disappear'. This sucks and is the only significant flaw in an otherwise FANTASTIC skin. Earns 9.5 stars. Fix the scroll bar issue and it's a solid 10!!

This skin has an attractive color combination which is "easy on the eyes" ... and nice icons. It even works well with Opera 8.5 This may become one of my most used skins!

However,there is the "disappearing" scroll bar color effect, I might not be able to adapt to... Good work in general to the author!

UPDATE: The way it handles the width of new tabs is not standard, but I'm getting used to it.

Great skin, unfortunately underrated. How about animating close button on tabs?

A couple of issues:
1. Pages with long titles make the tab extremely long.
2. The red/blue minimise/restore/close buttons for the page (you need "Show close button on each tab" unckecked) look bad in Windows. I think they are too small because they appear to tile downwards.

These prevent me from using the skin, because they're annoying. The rest of the graphics are good though, I'd like to use the skin.