Tobias Scherer

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:48:47 AM

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Blog tag: 5 things I’d like to see in Opera

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Tobias Scherertomu # Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:10:15 AM

Sorry, I had to delete the old post together with the comments because something was broken. You are invited to post again...

tomu

Anonymous # Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:09:14 PM

JC writes: I am a lawyer in Oklahoma, USA, and a great fan of your cateye skins. I have ttt cateye 5_4_17_0 downloaded on my desktop unit at my office which operates on XP. It is good loking and operates in a superb manner. I have just purchased a new Sony LapTop, which also operates on XP; however, when I download the same cateye skin, it does not come out the same. The cateyes do not show up in the toolbar; instead, in their place are metal appearing arrowhead buttons. I have downloaded it 5 or 6 times, with the same result. Does anybody have a remedy for this? If so, I'd love to have it. I can be reached at romanokie@earthlink.net. Thanks very much.

Tobias Scherertomu # Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:05:38 PM

JC

Please edit your comment as soon as possible; remove the mail-address: you invite spammers! Please note the possibility for private messages if you need any help.

I guess you must activate the `Main bar` in "View - Toolbars", and then rightclick the main bar and choose `Customize...` and activate `Large Images` there for the main bar.

This way you are able to activate `Large images` also for other toolbars, but normally it makes only sense in the main bar.

Perhaps you have also downloaded a ttt-toolbar setup on your office-pc, the above settings are already made with this setup (see: http://my.opera.com/tomu/homes/files/h-setdown.html).

tomu

Anonymous # Sunday, April 16, 2006 11:11:34 PM

IanMD writes: I'm wondering if you have any buttons to use as a shortcut to Opera's spellcheck option. If you do, I can't find them! :) I love all of your skins! Your work is awesome!

Tobias Scherertomu # Monday, April 17, 2006 3:48:30 AM

IanMD

Indeed there is a little lack

. I will add at least the standard `Check spelling` into the mail category in future...

tomu

v-love # Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:45:09 PM

thanks for your awesome skins & buttons
keep up the good work

jlarrym # Sunday, June 11, 2006 7:26:59 PM

Hi Tobias

I love your work and my Opera would be incomplete without it. I have noticed in the current Radio skin that I have to click on most of the tabs twice to get them to open. It is the same in 5_6-25_0. I have reverted to 5_3-5_3 and every thing works as expected. I am using an older Logitech wheelmouse if it matters. Again thanks for your work.

jlarrym

Anonymous # Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:29:01 PM

smokescreen writes: Hi Tobias- Thanks for your hard work; I've been a fan of your skins going way back. Not sure if these are technically possible, but a couple of ideas. First it would be nice if a custom button could be made for favorite sits along the idea of the buttons you've made for ie and firefox(excellent by the way). I know that adding to the personal bar has the same effect, but I love your buttons sooo much, and like the idea of everything matching. Something else I wouldn't mind seeing is the ability to use both size buttons on the same tool bar. Thanks again. Smokescreen P.S. I also have the double click problem with Radio using final release of v9 and the previous 2 builds as well

Tobias Scherertomu # Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:02:53 PM

smokescreen

- Individual button images for preferred sites: momentary my paper skin includes about 630 button images (standard skin 210), so the growed file size allows not such additional button images you wish. But drag and drop something from the addressbar, personal bar or from the bookmarks panel to any toolbar...

The file size is also the reason why I cannot deliver all buttons in a large version.

- Both size of buttons on the same toolbar: the option `Large images` in Tools - Appearance - Toolbars enables or disables large images per toolbar; activated = large images on the current toolbar are displayed, if available. You can edit your skin.ini (inside the skins zipfile); you have to set a `;`sign in front of each button entry (.large) inside the section [Images] you like not to see with the large image. For instance:

;Back.large = 2nice/back.png

That means: the large back-image is not available, so the small one is displayed - but in general, on each toolbar!

- Did you have the tab-click problem also with the latest Radio skin v5.8?

tomu

Anonymous # Friday, June 23, 2006 4:57:24 PM

smokescreen writes: Tobias- thanks for the tips. Worked great. I still have the double click issue on at least one machine running xp pro sp2. It's like the first click selects the tab and the 2nd click activates it. No real big deal to me, but I figure you would like the feedback. I'm loving this skin and extra buttons more and more...Opera should hire you to make the default skins and overall look. Fantastic smokescreen

Anonymous # Friday, July 14, 2006 2:11:49 PM

Mau writes: Hiya I am new to Opera and loving it! And I had to tell you..I am becoming a fan of your work! They are gorgeous pieces of work, easy on the eyes! Thank you for sharing such lovely skins! Mau

Anonymous # Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:47:21 PM

Steve Haney writes: Tobias, Hello again! You have a broken link on your blog page: AdvancedToolbarINIGuide is linked to http:///, and that's all. Later! Steve

Tobias Scherertomu # Tuesday, August 15, 2006 6:56:04 PM

Thanks Steve

tomu

Anonymous # Friday, September 22, 2006 6:03:54 PM

Anonymous writes: Hi Tomu, wow! You have great buttons on your site. Quite useful timesavers :-) I've been searching a "Save as Webarchive (mht)" button for months. Do you know howto make one? Thanks in advance mike

Tobias Scherertomu # Friday, September 22, 2006 8:05:03 PM

Mike

Unfortunately `Save as webarchive` is not possible as far as I know; you have to take a normal save document-button and then to choose `webarchive mht` in the filetype dropdown field each time.

You can be sure that I add such a button immediately if I find a way.

tomu

Franksv-chamelea # Saturday, January 6, 2007 1:26:17 PM

Tomu,
Just found your site via link from the Op9 buttons thread. But I've been using various TTT skins for a long time - love 'em, Paper45, Gold, now Show - thanks!

Now heading over to look at your buttons.

Chamelea

Anonymous # Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:59:25 PM

Anonymous writes: Unable to download TTT-People 6.0. I have a dial-up connection. Any suggestions? Thanks Joe R.

Tobias Scherertomu # Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:37:48 PM

Joe R.

The people skin have about 670Kb - so perhaps you have to wait some minutes with the dial-up.

Try also to rightclick the download button and then click on `Save target as...`. After that, you have to copy the downloaded file manually into the folder `.../Opera.../Profile/Skin/` (where your profile folder is, you can find out in Help - About Opera, look there for the `Opera directory`).

Or: if you send me your mail address in a private message I can send you the file as attachment by mail.

tomu

v-love # Saturday, January 13, 2007 11:02:07 PM

hey tomu,

thanks for the new skin/the new buttons! :)
keep up the good work.

v-love aka mihau

Anonymous # Monday, March 19, 2007 10:48:24 AM

Anonymous writes: Hi, Tobias I have been using your skins and buttons for years, they are so great. I am looking for the cut, copy and paste buttons, I know they were available for old versions (like v6) but I can't see them now, am I not looking properly? Thanks.

Anonymous # Monday, March 19, 2007 11:14:47 AM

Oceanic writes: howdy sir. im a nobody, but ive been a big fan of your ttt skins for years. the only issue is when you view the browser fullscreen at a resolution above 1280x1024, you get a nasty tile artifact. as such ive been hacking (for my own personal use) the zenterbig.jpg image by making it tileable for several years. i love the buttons and the interface and width of the tabs, but ive gotten kinda bored with the actual background, and as ive upgraded my computer over the years and can now easily see the jpeg artifacts. well, that led me to making a replacement zenterbig.jpg for my own personal use. http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7006/zenterbiggk6.jpg i designed it to: work well with all color themes and the original ttt theme match well with your ttt buttons' saturation and lightness work at any resolution without tile artifacts be similar to the crumply paper look (eventually it became like satin) it looks great on my computer at higher resolutions and has added a fresh feel to my browser. i figure others might appreciate the look, and not limit the enjoyment of your perfect buttons to those only with smaller resolutions. as such, im giving it to you to do with what you like. (i do kinda like the sound of a "tobs satin skin") i have the original psp9 files at larger resolutions if you would like those. my email is oceanic.com [at] gmail.com and once again the file addy for your viewing/download is http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7006/zenterbiggk6.jpg

Anonymous # Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:50:38 PM

Ampa writes: I can't find a button for Opera 9's 'block content' - is it possible to create one please? Ampa

Tobias Scherertomu # Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:19:53 AM

Sorry for the late answers

About cut/copy/paste
I remember at least the button image for `cut`; was integrated in an older skin only for menus. In the skin version 6.0 I reorganized the button image entries and deleted a lot of older stuff, that was necessary in order to win file size for all the other buttons and to stay compatible to other skins (the current standard skin contains about 220 button images, but a ttt-skin contains about 570...). But it`s a good idea; I`m thinking about cut/copy/paste as separate buttons or as combinations for the buttons page. Thanks

Oceanic
Yes, I know the paper skin-background looks `not so good` with a higher resolution. I`m searching for the original to be able to renew the image (lost all the old work last year with a crash). Your background is very nice; it`s a real alternative, but for my eyes a bit to far from the paper-idea and I prefer an untiled image. I appreciate your work and effort; for me it`s an impulse to do something. Thank you very much

Ampa
There are several buttons for the `Block content` toolbar, see for instance Toolbars: Block content bar on the ttt-buttons page. Unfortunately it is not possible to enable/disable block content directly. Please note also the `Table of contents` on the buttons page.

tomu

Tobias Scherertomu # Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:17:19 AM

Again about cut/copy/paste
Unfortunately it is not possible to create proper working buttons for these commands; tried it once again, but there seems to be a focus problem.

tomu

Anonymous # Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:11:29 AM

Anonymous writes: Tomu, thanks for trying regarding the cut/copy/paste buttons. It's a shame they can't be added but I guess I will cope. :-) I just don't understand why they are not included with Opera as defaut in the first place; IE and Firefox manage it so why not Opera? It's not like they perform a fringe function either.

Anonymous # Monday, April 16, 2007 5:47:38 PM

Anonymous writes: It tells me permission is denied to download the newest TTT paper skin (version 6.3). I'm using 5.5 currently.

Tobias Scherertomu # Monday, April 16, 2007 11:05:27 PM

Sorry about the error message - direct download seems to be broken at the moment, and I don`t no why. The links on `TTT-Skins` are changed now; until further notice they opens the original skin download page at myOpera...

tomu

Anonymous # Monday, May 28, 2007 2:33:38 PM

Anonymous writes: when i download the skin where should i save it and what should i do to get it in opera? :S

Tobias Scherertomu # Monday, May 28, 2007 5:48:32 PM

:S

If you click the `Download` button on the download-page with Opera, the skin should be saved in the right profile/skin folder and you can reach the skin in Tools - Appearance - Skin. On the same place you can choose another skin or go back to the old one.

But if you download via Rightclick - `Save target as...` or with another browser, you have to copy the skin file manually to the right folder. The right skin folder you find out in Help - About Opera (e.g. if you see there as `Opera directory` the folder `...Opera/profile`, you can save the skinfile to `...Opera/profile/skin`. Also in this case you can change the skin in Tools - Appearance - Skin.

tomu

Thangarajthangarajj # Sunday, June 17, 2007 6:54:07 AM

Hi, Great collection of buttons.

A suggestion for a bitton though:

"Create new tab and go to the address in the clipboard"

Preferably looking like you button for:
"New tab, arrow: Close tab (no title)"

Warm Regards,
Thangaraj

Tobias Scherertomu # Sunday, June 17, 2007 8:14:12 AM

rojer_31

I will add such buttons so soon as possible - thanks for the suggestion.

tomu

Anonymous # Friday, July 27, 2007 7:18:14 AM

Priya writes: your stuff is sweet.

abuloay # Sunday, October 7, 2007 4:11:21 AM

Hello all,

I always go to View > Encoding > Arabic > Windwos-1256

Can someone give me a button when I click on it, it will encode the page on arabic language.

Thanks,
abuloay

Tobias Scherertomu # Saturday, October 13, 2007 10:48:44 AM

Abuloay

Uploaded the desired button to TTT-Buttons Various (at the end); follows more as soon as possible.

tomu

Tobias Scherertomu # Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:21:17 AM

Uploaded now a lot of `Encoding`-buttons for all regions, have a look: TTT-Buttons - Various2

tomu

Nabucconabucco # Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:12:51 PM

Damn, a great button as your "delete private data - details dialog" is broken because of Opera (9649) changes the dialog window...

I dont understand the need of that change.

Tobias Scherertomu # Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:45:10 AM

Indeed - the current details-expander is not reachable by commands (as far as I know). Bit I`m sure there will be a solution - in future, if the thing is finished...

tomu

Zalien # Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:19:03 PM

Hi, and thank you for the awesome work with skins and buttons in particular.
I'm new Opera UI tweaking and I was just wondering if any of the following is possible:
1. to have a folder or a drop-down menu style (like your "Menus" button, for instance)that holds a collection of buttons (rather than actions), on any of the toolbars? Kind of a holder/folder for a few buttons on a toolbar?
2. to have a "block-image" function on a right-click menu? you know, to do the same function as Shift+clicking an image while on the Block-Content bar?

Please excuse my English and for being rather obsecure, I tried to explain it best.

Tobias Scherertomu # Saturday, November 17, 2007 11:06:51 AM

Nabucco
With the 9.5-preview build 9656 the `Delete private data - details` buttons works again.

Zalien
You can reach each existing menu ([xyz menu]) from the menu.ini with a button included in the toolbar.ini, example: Button2007=Show hidden popup menu,"Browser Bookmarks Menu",,"MyMarks","Panel bookmarks"

But you can also create own sections in the menu.ini, example: [My own Zalien menu] containing the desired command lines and reachable with the following button, inserted to the toolbar.ini: Button2008=Show hidden popup menu,"My own Zalien menu",,"Zalimenu","Panel bookmarks"

In addition you can reach your own menu from each other menu, including the following into the desired menu.ini section:

Submenu, "Z-Menu", My own Zalien menu
or
Include, My own Zalien menu

tomu

Anonymous # Saturday, November 24, 2007 8:04:33 PM

Anonymous writes: Great work, I have been using your skins for several years now. I always search them out with any new installed version. However, I noticed when I installed the new beta it wiped out all my setup, one button I want in particular was the "Identify As" button that allowed me to show as IE, FF or Opera. Now I can only found a drop down box that is not near so clean. Has this button been eliminated or am I just not finding it? You also used to have complkete setups that were very convienient, have they just been eliminated? Thanks again for all your great work.

Tobias Scherertomu # Sunday, November 25, 2007 4:52:36 PM

Yes, the old ttt-setups are eliminated since about one year. It was to complicated to renew several setups for each new Opera version again.

What I can offer at the moment is my private ttt-toolbar-setup, which is nearby the same as the old public setup. Just now I uploaded the setup-file to the ttt-buttons page (please navigate there to `Links - Toolbar setup` or click directly here: ttt-toolbar setup).

Please note, that also this setup no longer contains additional buttons in `Appearance - Buttons` (that was to complicated), but you can find all your accustomed buttons, and much more, on the ttt-buttons page. For instance the `Identify as` button: ttt-buttons search-status-misc.

Note also the practical table of contents for the ttt-buttons page; content-sections and content alphabetical as well as the appropriate ttt-buttons sidebar/panel.

tomu

v-love # Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:34:25 PM

Tobias - been using your skin for years and it's still my favorite: TTT-Minibright.

however, when I installed Opera 9.5 final today, I noticed 2 changes
that not even updating to the lastest skin version could fix, so I
guess thats a small mistake by Opera coders: both the normal status
bar as well as the progress/loading status bar gained significantly
in height, like, 5 or so pixels per each.

any chance to fix that in future versions?

thanks again for all the great work!

Tobias Scherertomu # Friday, June 13, 2008 7:45:14 AM

v-love

All my skins will be updated for Opera 9.5 as soon as possible - but currently I`m to busy to do it; be patient.

tomu

v-love # Friday, June 13, 2008 6:51:08 PM

excellent, thanks/danke/merci villmahl :-)

Richard E. BotbylPizzapops # Monday, July 14, 2008 7:15:27 PM

tomu,

I have been a fan of your skins for some time. Admittedly, I do tweak them to suit my fancy. I have a couple skins that I would like to upload to my.opera but would like your OK to do so. They are based on your skins but with substantial changes to backgrounds, icons and toolbars.

Example: http://my.opera.com/Pizzapops/files/Rubot_titanium_801.zip

Admittedly, there is some orphan icons and some unneeded lines in the skin.ini that will have to be taken care of at a later date. The Rubot tag is a revived name I used for shareware in the 80's.

Pizzapops

Anonymous # Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:22:03 AM

Anonymopera writes: Hi Tobias, your website is very good and hat lots of button, but sometimes I don't know in which category is the button I'm looking for, so could you set up a search books or any search facility?

Tobias Scherertomu # Monday, December 22, 2008 8:46:58 AM

You can search with Opera`s `Find...` option in the table of contents as well as in the alphabetical version of the table (which is a subject index).

tomu

De Hoofdredactiepolidoor # Monday, December 29, 2008 6:21:58 PM

After all these years I'm still using Tobs Theatre Spacesaver. I'm still amazed that it works with opera 9.63, but I'm very gratefull, because it's the best skin I've ever had the pleasure to have used. I may try out other skins, but I keep coming back to Spacesaver.

Thanks from a loyal fan!

Anonymous # Wednesday, March 4, 2009 6:01:37 PM

Anonymous writes: Great work

Anonymous # Thursday, April 2, 2009 1:55:29 PM

Anonymous writes: I wanted to say Thank you! Quite honest, I've been using your Black skin for .. 5 years or so, ever since Opera 7 for sure. I've looked at other skins from time to time, but never was even slightly tempted to switch off it. I just had to download it again (new computer) and was about to panick because I couldn't find it anywhere - either I'm blind or it's not in the selection of the opera-page any more, which would be a real pity. Summary ... ttt-black just belongs to my Opera, thank you for this wonderful skin :)

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