Icons

Hy, everybody!

I use Opera mail quite some time now, but since this new release I am lost.
Weather I was blind before or all / some of these Icons are new, I just can't tell.

But can someone please explain the meaning of the following Icons for me:

In the status line
* a light dot, like o
* a arrow to the left like I want to turn left
* a black Alien head or scull or what ever
* a head with a green tick (Mostly on people I know)

In the subject line
* a white papersheet
* a blue envelope (even tough I marked all read, jet it turns into a white paper when I select it)
* a big white ghost or skull

Even though I search the help I did not find an answer. Maybe someone give me a hint to the place
where they explain it...

Thank you all for your patience.

Originally posted by qay:

* a light dot, like o

Toggles whether message is pinned or not. You can do this via the push pin on the message too or even via right-click -> pin message.

Originally posted by qay:

* a arrow to the left like I want to turn left

Means that you've responded to the message.

Originally posted by qay:

* a black Alien head or scull or what ever

The same icon you see next to "All Messages/Spam"? If so, it means it's a spam message.

Originally posted by qay:

* a head with a green tick (Mostly on people I know)

Not sure what you mean without seeing it. You mean icon "Contact38" if you right-click on a contact in the contacts panel, goto "properties" and then "images"? If so, that's the icon use for a followed contact. You can click a contact in the header bar above a message or right-click a contact in the contacts panel and choose to follow/ignore.

Originally posted by qay:

* a white papersheet* a blue envelope (even tough I marked all read, jet it turns into a white paper when I select it)

blueish envelope = unseen message
white envelope = seen message
Paper/letter = read message (as in you marked is as read manually (or automatically when a message is seen if you changed the "mark as read" option to "after 1 second")).

Originally posted by qay:

* a big white ghost or skull

Not sure without seeing it. Sounds like you're talking about the spam icon again or the custom skull icon that you'd set yourself for a contact in the contacts panel.

Originally posted by burnout426:

Originally posted by qay:

* a light dot, like o

Toggles whether message is pinned or not. You can do this via the push pin on the message too or even via right-click -> pin message.

Already found a UI bug...
When you push/unpush the pin on the message, the dot changes accordingly.
But when you click on the dot, the pin icon don't changes accordingly...

Originally posted by YinYanger:

Already found a UI bug...When you push/unpush the pin on the message, the dot changes accordingly.But when you click on the dot, the pin icon don't changes accordingly...

Known problem. Was in all the 11.60 betas etc.

Originally posted by burnout426:

Originally posted by qay:

* a big white ghost or skull

Not sure without seeing it. Sounds like you're talking about the spam icon again or the custom skull icon that you'd set yourself for a contact in the contacts panel.

Thank you for your quick response.

Ok, I think it may be better to upload a screenshot (cutted):
Screenshot

Here you see on the left
*the black ghost,
* the head

and on the right
* the black white head.

I hope you can explain them to me...

Originally posted by qay:

*the black ghost,

It's a skull in the status column. (You might be able to click that to mark a message as not spam.)

Originally posted by qay:

* the black white head.

That's a skull too.

Both of those are telling you the message is a spam message.

Originally posted by qay:

* the head

That's a 'followed contact' it looks like. You'd have to explicitly choose to follow a contact to get that.

A little trick too. In Opera's program files folder is a "skin" folder. In it is the skin. Extract the zip and look at the icons in the "icons", "contacts" and "mail" folders. Their filenames are pretty descriptive, so you'll find out a lot that way.

Thank you very much for your help.

I guess I live in the crazy world where I expect to get an tooltip when I hoover my mouse over a new icon or at least get the icon explained in the manual.


Well, the program is great and free and I found a frendly soul helping..
I am happy, case solved !

Originally posted by qay:

Thank you very much for your help.

I guess I live in the crazy world where I expect to get an tooltip when I hoover my mouse over a new icon or at least get the icon explained in the manual.


Well, the program is great and free and I found a frendly soul helping..
I am happy, case solved !

User interfaces keep improving, and tooltips are really a great way to include the manual into the software!
As a longtime and persuaded user of opera mail I was a little at loss with the new icons (thank you very much for this thread) and I must say, IMHO the tutorial did not cover them enough .