Opera Skins

SUPERB!

This is strange, - I'm on Windows XP (SP2), Opera 8713, and
this thing looks just like G100 put it - SUPERB

Beautiful! Great work!

Great Theme! Keep up the great work. :-)

Well, I have to say that on Windows (XP) there ARE some problems
For example, context menu F12 does not show checkboxes,
and somehow JavaScript is OFF (!?)
Could be some other issues.

konic, the skin isn't made for Windows as it is a native Mac skin... and those problems have nothing to do with the skin as I can't change shortcuts nor turn off settings through the skin's ini file.

Made the bold, red text bigger so people will understand in the future... Opera really needs sections for different platforms and an Opera 9 skin section as this skin wouldn't work on anything but Opera 9.

I know that it was done for Mac OS, but I tried it on Windows anyway.
Could you explain why it shouldn't be running on Windows?
It's just a bunch of png files.
And can it be 'modified' to make it work under Windows?

It's a native skin and requires Mac OS X's native UI elements to function properly. It's the same reason why Windows native skins do not work on the Mac. I can't promise that a native skin for OS X works on Windows or Linux.

Because I have it programmed as a native skin it would take a lot of work to get it to work on Windows. Opera 9.2 weekly build 3602 for Mac introduced a new feature in the skinning system that we in the Mac Opera community have been begging for years, to be able to skin anything over the native UI. The reason why we asked for this is because the Aqua UI elements are impossible to replicate using Opera's skinning system. I have no way to properly test Opera on Windows as I use a Macintosh. I have a stripped-down version of Windows XP (custom ISO created through nLite so I can use Windows in Parallels without much memory usage) so I can test websites I program in IE 6 and IE 7 (wish I could just give those users the finger ).

I could install Opera in there to make a Windows skin, but the only reason why I even learned how to make skins in the first place is because the standard Opera UI on the Mac is atrocious to say the least. I've worked (and am still working) on making it as good as I can with the tools Opera allows me. To sum it up I'm not a Windows user, so I cannot make Windows Opera skins effectively.

If anyone wishes to make this work better with Windows they're welcome to it, and I'll even provide code and images from previous versions of Entr'Acte that attempt to mimic Mac OS X UI elements, but I ask that an experienced Opera skinner tackle this feat as I won't give lessons on how to skin for Opera. There's plenty of resources.

Very nice, clean skin. Looks great on my G4 mini, 10.4.8. Thanks for all your work.

A very nice skin. It's become the default for this new user.

I had to do a google search to find the 3602 weekly build - perhaps you could put a link in the description?

All weekly builds are at the Desktop Team's Blog. The newest versions are shown at the top of the page. This situation with this requirement of a new weekly build will only be temporary as they will release Opera 9.2 in the not so distant future.

Cool. I wish we could have more Native Mac skin.

Why isn't this skin default on OS X installation of Opera?

Very Nice and Clear skin

Great!

Can we get a screen shot of this skin in action for us non-Mac users?

What's the point? Doesn't work on anything but the Mac, anyway.

Awesome job, an improvement on the default Macintosh Native skin. However, the text in the tab bar gets truncated very quickly in comparison (open up lots of tabs and soon all you'll have left is the icons). There seem to be some other problems with icons overlapping text (e.g. the zoom control, the +magnifying glass will overlap the 1 in 100%).

p00ya: The text in the tab bar is part of Opera's normal functionality and nothing I can do and I don't know what your problem is with the zoom control. I don't skin that part so if there's a problem with it in my skin there's a problem with it in Opera's default skin as well. I use that on a daily basis and have never had the icon overlap the 1.

YtseJam,
It kinda works on Windows.
Of course there are issues... >
I mean, you can safely install it, but ...
there are some issues.

Windows users can install this skin.

Super!

This is a great skin, thank you so much! They should make it the default for Opera on Mac OS X.

Khadgar, what do you care? Can't provide a screen shot? DON'T.
Some people like to LOOK AT THINGS. Sheesh.

Well I care because I created the skin, obviously. Download it and you'll see just what it looks like. If I provide a screenshot people on Windows and other platforms will expect it to look like that when it doesn't. The best thing for you to do is download it, find out it looks like crap on Windows, and move on to someone else to annoy.

You miss the entire point. Typical.

I really like this skin. Good Work.

I'd love to see a "unified" version, rather than just the old school pin-stripes.

It's easy on the eyes and looks clean-not comic. I like it. I like comic too, just not on my skins. Thanks!

I like it, not the best but it's good, using it right now

Esta de fabula muy bien diseñado.

Si tienes tiempo haz un tutorial para realizar skins para opera mac

I guess I'm in the minority as I prefer the default mac skin. Here's why:

I like the blue highlighting of the active tab while the non-active tabs have a background color that is not darkened as opposed to having them darkened à la Safari. I find it easier to read the titles on non-active tabs this way, while the active tab stands out even more.

The white border and shadowing around the address bar buttons makes them stand out. The lack of border along with the gradient on these buttons in the Entr'Acte skin makes them fade into the bar at the top to the extent that the arrows barely look like arrows.

I was waiting for a good Mac skin and this is (IMHO) the best so far - if the skin could be unified that would be the cherry

the best one on mac os

would it be posible to have the same skins without aqua effects?

Thanks!

SMOOTH Dustin! Thanks.

can't download it, get a 400 bed request

That pic with the curtains looks awesome on my screen - you haven't got something like that as a wallpaper, at all, have you?

Muy simple...

It is indeed a good skin... Hope you don't mind, if I tweak it for Win XP/Vista users: I can make "educated" guesses about the effects used.

If you want to work with Windows, checkboxes, edit, radio_buttons, and so on are required, and of course the skin.ini should be edited accordingly.

Thanks for providing this native Mac skin.
I prefer it to the default Mac skin.
My condolences for all the needless Windows chatter.
You would think the big red text is big enough and red enough for Windows users to understand that this is not for them.

Ok, ok they don't want to feel excluded, but can't you Windows users just get over it already and if you can't live without Mac software and can't live with yourselves for choosing Windows exclusively, then get a Mac and stop blaming OS X users (eg. YtseJam go home to your PC and stop wasting our time).

Looks ok on PC except that all the preference windows have black background color and are unreadable.

@darumaki

THIS IS A MACINTOSH NATIVE SKIN. This is only for MACINTOSH Opera 9.2 or higher as it implements a new feature this skin requires.

Im new to the mac...i converted after 15 yrs of windows last year...i downloaded the skin for opera but cant find it. Duh. It still has the old skin..could one of you show me where to find it and installit?

ok disregard that...i figured it out...when theres a wheel theres a one way street haha...it kept showing the same browser skin because i was already using the mac opera skin...i only noticed when i tried downloading another skin...what a dufus...
ok whats so special about this skin?

while were at the dumb questions...i have tried 5 times to change my avatar to no availatar...wht am i not doing right?

Khadgar

I can understand your earlier frustration at requests from Windows Users for answers and extras to accomodate them. But one request made by a Windows User would be helpful for us Mac Users as well: a screen shot on the "Find more skins" Listing and/or the Download Page makes it easier for someone browsing for a particular 'look' to know whether they want to try out Entr'Acte.
There was one other Skin that didn't include a screenshot or sample buttons, named VISTA ORIGINAL. As with yours it would have been helpful if they had provided a screenshot or two. Unlike yours, the author didn't specify whether it was Windows-only skin, so I had to download it, in order to determine both whether I liked it, AND whether it would work on my Mac. Not a big deal, but you might actually save yourself a question or two by including a preview.