Le mythe de Sisyphe

First attempt in making a theme for Opera 12 using the linen texture that Apple put in its latest OS

If you like it download it from here!

Opera Swordfish is coming out with a brand-new skin! I'm very excited for the new UI since it reflects my tastes and I consider it as a huge improvement over the past skin.
When Firefox4 came out it had a new skin, but I felt that it looked like a complete different browser (tabs on top for example). On the contrary our designers were capable of giving a fresh new look to Opera maintaining, at the same time, the browser identity! The new skin has also some genial solutions like the "page curl" effect for tabs that needs attention.
Now, after the praise I'd like to share with you some thoughts. I've played a lot with the skin in these days and I'm missing two things from the previous skin:
1) an icon for showing when turbo is not working properly ( the old turbo_warning); Edit: Swordfish RC5 has it!
2) an icon for showing the different states of the synchronizing process of Link (the old icon had a little animation with spinning arrows when Link was busy). In particular I'd like to see when Link is working and when is in stand-by, so I can quit Opera when the synchronization is finished, avoiding the annoying ( yet necessary) window that tells you that Link is busy.

In addition, I think that the icons in the mail panel feel out of place with the new monochromatic style, in particular on Mac. However, this "oversight" gives me the opportunity to realize a new skin, 'cause if these icons were different, I would not have had more reasons to create new skins for Opera!

I've already shared some opinions with Helmers on Twitter ( I think he's starting to hate me ) and I'd like to hear your opinions!
Remember:
1) the skin is in its first phase
2) If you don't like Featherweight I won't talk to you anymore!

Here's a mockup that I made in my spare time. I'm sorry for the bad quality, but I did it in few minutes. Basically it shows how Opera should improve its appearance in order to fit better into osx.

In my opinion tabs should be moved up like in Opera for Windows: the actual configuration leaves too much empty space. In particular, because of this waste I don't use the new bookmarks bar on my 13 inch macbook.
In order to make the panels look better, Opera should handle them like iTunes does. Also they should have a light blue background and better icons (here you can see the mail panel with icons taken from Apple Mail). For what concerns the icons in the panels, I think that they looked great in the original Opera 10 skin, but now they need to be changed.

Few weeks ago I made a refined version of Opera 11 mac skin, however with the recent release of Opera 11.01 my skin became (luckily) useless. Infact almost all the things I put there now are in the latest version of the default skin.
So i decided to find something else that needs to be "refined"
That's what i did:
- new tab_history icon
- Rounded mac button in the address badge callout

- removed the white background in the panel-toggle-closed icon
-changed the color of the speed-dial badge in the addressbar. Since I consider it like an internal page, now it uses the same color of the "Local badge" instead of using the "empty badge" color.

Give it a try here