Some minor problems with the new featherweight skin.

featherweight is a great direction, even nicer is that opera finally gives m2 a bit more attention, although there are a couple issue I found trying new versions
all this were done using the default (11.6 beta/latest 12) setting on ubuntu 11.10 64bit. they happen on windows as well.

First, the new address bar dropdown highlight can't be skinned. Opera default uses blue as primary color, which windows/osx use as well, however they can be themed, leaving dropdown selection to system color would break the overall flow (in this case the default ubuntu orange), and it doesn't match other menu selection (see 2nd picture).


Second, moving mouse to the “x” close button on speeddial the speeddial background wouldn't turn blue.


Third, active tab is not predominant enough in thumbnail mode. (this is the default skin before featherweight, compare to the 1st picture)


last one, move your mouse to the zoom-slider on status bar, scroll up to zoom in to 120%, then scroll down to 100%, it will jump from 120 to 109 to 99. this is probably not skin's fault, but it wasn't before 11.5 when the featherweight skin was introduced.

Originally posted by s33s:

Second, moving mouse to the “x” close button on speeddial the speeddial background wouldn't turn blue.

I can confirm this.

If I hover a thumbnail, it's okay, it turns blue, but if I then hover the "x" without leaving the thumbnail, the hover effect is gone. And if I hover again the thumbnail (and not the "x"), there's no hover effect either - I must leave the thumbnail and hover it again for the effect to appear.

UPDATE: in 1169 snapshot, the first problem evolved to this

ideally this is a bit better, since it's blue, independent from system color, but it's still standout to much, especially since the new mail introduced many menus like this

with a VERY vista/win7 style highlight button, long story short, inconsistency and not controllable through skin

Try opera:config, look under Interface Colors.

thanks, I didn't thought about that, but it's not in there either.
I've searched skin.ini for 0095FF, nothing.

Originally posted by s33s:

inconsistency and not controllable through skin

It's controllable in the newest 11.6 snapshot, search the skin.ini for [Address Bar Drop Down Item] or that hex color code

Great!! I was just testing the new snapshot.

now I just hopes the second and last one will be fixed before the official 11.60 release.

last one, move your mouse to the zoom-slider on status bar, scroll up to zoom in to 120%, then scroll down to 100%, it will jump from 120 to 109 to 99. this is probably not skin's fault, but it wasn't before 11.5 when the featherweight skin was introduced.

can any one test this? I've tested it under windows xp/7 and ubuntu, also happens to the slider in speeddial setting.