How does your Opera look?

How does your Opera look?

Here is a screenshot (600x800) of my Opera

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Mine's nice and simple - the wonders of MS Paint mean that I can keep the image under 100kB by resizing to 80%.

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Here's mine. Although Im not done customizing it, since it's a neverending task.

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As you can see, I've lost my Menu Bar (File, Edit, View, etc) - any quick way to restore it?

Thanks!

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ctrl + F11?

Originally posted by Mohjive
Here's mine. Although Im not done customizing it, since it's a neverending task.

This [X]'s very big and not good looking.
This skins author(s)* must be correct this.

*Me. (But, I'm not continiued. I hope Moose does)

Originally posted by composer
This [X]'s very big and not good looking.

That's one thing I have removed after I posted that.
Although I kept it for the active page, but used another button.

nice joke with this Bill Gates in one of above attachements

ok, here's mine Opera 7.60 P1

Attachment: super_duper_operrra.gif

This has been downloaded 999 time(s).

My Opera 7.54 with Avala skin

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My Opera with the 7.6 default skin. I scaled the skin down to 50% and moved the popup manager to my panels.
I am a fan of the minimalistic approach, too..
I put some additional controls to the bottom status bar.

Edit: Uploaded a new screenshot

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Breeze simplified micro V3.6

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Here is mine. I'm using Moose's toolbar setup and skin with some minor modifications. I replaced the big red X's with the ones from Breeze II V3.9.

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And here is a shot showing how I'm using the new Blank Page bar.
I added bookmark and session dropdown menu's and some of my favorites.

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my setup using Fresh skin

oops, helps to attach the file...

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here is mine :-D

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F_Elz, you're another one of us who likes panels on the right hand side of the screen. Seems so much more obvious to put it there where it's out of the way of the natural line of the eye (I assume pretty much all of us read left to right).

It's me again... I recently reinstalled Windows, unfortunately, I forgot to take a copy of my Opera setup. So I've reconfigured it. I'm using the Neo skin with the "Sea" color scheme.
http://members.surfeu.fi/jerkku/myopera/opera-screenshot.png

I keep the menu bar in a button next to the address bar, it saves quite a lot of space:
http://members.surfeu.fi/jerkku/myopera/opera-menus.png

Originally posted by Words
F_Elz, you're another one of us who likes panels on the right hand side of the screen. Seems so much more obvious to put it there where it's out of the way of the natural line of the eye (I assume pretty much all of us read left to right).

The thing is that this natural path of reading is best achieved by putting the panel on the left side.

If your panel is on the right side and you want to visit e.g. one of your bookmarks your eyes must travel a much longer way as they first have to focus the entry in your bookmarks panel and then travel to the left to begin reading the page on the opposite side of the screen.

Additionally your eyes ignore the panel as long you don't use it as they do ignore the environment of your screen, e.g. your speakers or the real window in the background. They move around only in the area described by the website in the browsing window.

You could argue of course that by the time your eyes have traveled back the website has finished loading. So you keep your idle time at a minimum

I think the placement of the panel is a matter of taste in the end.

I think the placement of the panel is a matter of taste in the end.

Couldn't agree more actually. It's probably habit. I'm used to having my Office short-cut bar on the right so that's where I go more or less without thinking to find things. I don't really use the bookmark panel that much (though I often leave it open). Most of my regular bookmarks are nicely located on my status bar at the bottom of the screen.

Originally posted by Kyb
Additionally your eyes ignore the panel as long you don't use it as they do ignore the environment of your screen, e.g. your speakers or the real window in the background. They move around only in the area described by the website in the browsing window.

Not exactly true...
Everything outside the screen is ignored automatically because the screen is most often brighter, but you have to activly ignore space to the left inside the screen area.

At least my eyes ignore it..

But let's get back to the far more interesting actual subject of the thread

Here is my new look

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This is my Opera!

I've tried Firefox (I got the 1.0 installed), and I've used IE before. But Opera will always be closest to my heart. Mostly because of the mouse navigation, and the way Opera handles tabs a bit better than Firefox.
But I will keep Firefox and IE for the times I need to check my webdesigns.

Now, the image I've uploaded here - is how my Opera looks like in my Windows XP SP2 (all though my setup looks more like a fifthy-fifthy Linux/Mac setup).

Cute, ain't it? ;-)

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The status bar is immediately to the right of the Find button.
The 2 buttons on the top right are for Links window (for fast
downloading of stuff) and the Transfers window.

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Here is mine again, the skin has changed, so have the toolbars (a bit).

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My opera look again, I hidden the personal bar and now I using the start bar, also using the Breeze II 4.0 with color scheme sea skin, because this skin frees space on my screen

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Here's mine with the Bright skin, scaled down to 90%, and my own colour scheme (#6363B1)

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It's not much in the way of customization. I just shuffled some menu items around
and add the Winamp controls to the bottom right.

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Heres mine nowadays, very minimalist, using breeze. The two Icons at the left are bookmarks and menu, I use mouse gestures for pretty much everything so no need for many toolbar buttons.

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P4

Here is P4 for me

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Here's mine (1280 x 800, amilo laptop):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/Colorshade/opera.png

Stire: What is your XP theme called? Me wants it

Question: how can you make a page bar look small if you put it to the left or to the right (not on top or on the bottom)?

It seems like last year when I last answered one of these threads

So here is my 7.6 P4. 250KB, PNG

M.

Jere posted this:

I keep the menu bar in a button next to the address bar, it saves quite a lot of space:
http://members.surfeu.fi/jerkku/myopera/opera-menus.png

How did you create the button that holds all that is normally in the "menu bar"?

This is how my Opera looks (at the moment): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/ToVeR/OperaScreenshot.jpg

Currently using Opera 7.60 preview 4b on a laptop at 1024 x 768 resolution with Breeze Simplified MICRO V3.8.
The small button at the bottom of the column containing the buttons to my panels is something peculiar in the skin used. In other skins, the button is (almost) as large as the other buttons. Maybe because this button goes with a panel containing a website from my bookmarks.

Found the menu button here:
http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=74421&highlight=menu+button

Very nice indeed. Very usefull when having not too much screen space (like on low resolution laptop screen).
Thanks for making that available.

How did you create the button that holds all that is normally in the "menu bar"?

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/CustomButtons

Scroll down to 'menu buttons' and make your choice:)

my opera

It seems that few people use opera panels like me.
It saves much space.

Re: my opera

Originally posted by JerryChin
It seems that few people use opera panels like me.
It saves much space.

post a screenshot of your treasure

Considering my 1400*1050 resolution the panels are something which can be on all time new style for me. (when I used 1280*960 in the past I thought the new style ate way too much space).

Anyway, to me that just proves Opera's crew has the luxury of working on 1337 lots of inch screens!

This how my Opera currently looks on win. I especially like that you can have single line toolbars for mail and chat in 7.60 p4. This is much less disturbing in setups that use the address bar because switching between all possible page types (browser / mail / chat / transfer / manage bookmarks, history, contacts, ...) always gives main toolbars with the same height

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My Opera!

And here is some of my design philosophy

OOps!

hmm... never mind... the file is bigger than the allowed size... what do I do?!?!

You can try shrinking its size with www.xnview.com

Ok here it is!

Aiight! Here is the pic!!!

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Re: Ok here it is!

Originally posted by AlexxPotter
Aiight! Here is the pic!!!

From what I see on your screenshot, you have some strange encoding selected, as the characters are messed up.

M.

So what kind of encoding do you suggest then?

Automatic?

M.

oh yes, never mind... I used different encoding at the time of the shot, so I was assuming it was automatic, but it was not

Here's mine. I used parts of non-troppo's WebDevToolbar on my status bar (on the right), but I normally switch it off. The navigation buttons are only there because my gf uses this computer too and she doesn't know all mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts yet.

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