A More Native skin

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4. April 2010, 05:12:52

ancientuser

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A More Native skin

MoreNative.zip

Since Opera 9.50, the native skin did not look quite native any more. Since Opera 10.50, Opera's own 'Native Skin' option has become rather a joke (at least for me). As I do not like Opera 10.50's GUI innovations, particularly, the new search dropdown system, the find in page system, the overlay dialogs etc. (and I could not get the old look back easily), I experimented to get the looks as native as I could. The result is quite messy but it worked for me. Therefore I decided to upload this result here. Maybe someone finds it useful. I used _Tank_'s 9.27 Native skin as a base but made quite many changes eventually.

I have no intention to make any "official" skin or to maintain, or be responsible for, the result since Opera changes its skinning parameters too often and these changes often appear to be rather undocumented at Opera's own website. And in some cases, some things just did not seem to work (as e.g. paddings and margins in the Overlay Dialog Title Skin, or my attempts to make the search dropdown really normal for me). One of the reasons is also that I decided to stick with 10.10 for the time being: the GUI of 10.50 just repels me, although I really tried.

If anyone finds this skin useful, here is my permission to develop, tidy, distribute or upload it to Opera's skin section or anywhere else. If you find this skin ugly (which may well be the case -- but for me it looks more native than other options available), just ignore the post.

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