I Fell from the Moon

Some of you might remember when I shared my beautiful Opera setups earlier. This week, Opera Unite was released, and a new version of the menus as well. My old setups aren't fully compatible, so I created some new ones.

The Compact Menus and Toolbars. They attempt to make an Opera equivalent of the menus in Chrome and Safari. They gather some of the menu bar items in two menus, and remove a few buttons from the address bar. Items you can find by right clicking or clicking a toolbar button are not included in the menus. The search field has been removed as well, but you can search by keywords such as "g search terms" to search google. For a full list of keywords go to Tools --> Preferences --> Search.

There are two versions available. One for the new Unite version of Opera and one for older versions of Opera.

Compact Setups - New

Compact Menu - New
Compact Toolbar - New

Compact Setups - Old

Compact Menu
Compact Toolbar

Instructions

You'll need to save the files in their respective directories. You'll find them by looking at the Opera directory under Paths in opera:about. The menu file needs to go in the menu directory and the toolbar file needs to go in the toolbar directory. If the directory doesn't exist, you'll need to create it. Make sure you save them as *.ini files and not *.* files. Both files are required to be saved correctly for all features to work.

Once you've placed the files in the correct directories enable them from Tools --> Preferences... --> Advanced --> Toolbars --> Compact menus - New/ Compact toolbars - New --> OK.

As a result of constant learning of CSS I've managed to do some pretty nifty things with this blog. I'm not talking about the theme. I'm talking about the mods I've done to the front page.



If you're using a decent browser (anything but Internet Explorer), you should se an additional menu of links below the banner and a introduction in the sidebar. Internet Explorer users will see empty areas where there should be text.

And if you're My Opera savvy, here are the codes:

<div id="mybloglinks">

<ul>

<li>
<a href="http://my.opera.com/drlaunch/blog/welcome#comments" title="Click here to leave a comment">
Guestbook
</a>
</li>

<li>
<a href="http://my.opera.com/blogdesigns/" title="Blog Designs - Giving back to the great MyOpera community!">
Themes
</a>
</li>

<li>
<a href="http://my.opera.com/techie-chat/" title="For people capable with and interested in technology. And for people who want help. Subjects cover aspects of technology like IT, computer maintenance and upgrading, new technology, software, hardware, developing, Internet, gadgets, networking, gaming and lots more.">
#techie
</a>
</li>

<li>
<a href="http://my.opera.com/lolcats/" title="i can show u mai lolcats plz?">
lolcats
</a>
</li>

<li>
<a href="http://my.opera.com/drlaunch/affiliate/">
[COLOR=red]
Opera
[/COLOR]
</a>
</li>

<li>
<a href="http://my.opera.com/Nplus/blog" title="N + Life | Culture | Community">
[COLOR=deeppink]
N+
[/COLOR]
</a>
</li>

</div>

<div id="myblogintro"><a href="http://my.opera.com/drlaunch/blog/welcome#comments">Welcome. I'm just a little confused after I fell from the moon. As a result I created what 250 000 monkeys in spacesuits would do if they were given a typewriter each. But don't worry. The monkeys with spacesuits separate this blog from blogs written by regular monkeys with typewriters. Don't you agree with that? Then speak your mind in the guestbook!</a></div>

And here.

Unless you want to code some your self, Desert Theme is required for the hacks to look right.