SkinINIChanges - list of changes to skin.ini

Original author: ToMu
See: ttt-buttons and skins







Here is a list of the latest undocumented changes to the skin.ini as an aid to skin authors. The list will be organised by changes by Version, preview and beta versions will be included.

A complete list of all documented and undocumented skin.ini-sections you find here: AdvancedSkinGuide. Helpful for button creators are the AdvancedToolbarINIGuide and the AllActionsListPlus page.


Skin changelogs for Opera 10.00:

Skin changelog for Opera 9.64:

Skin changelog for Opera 9.63:

Skin changelog for Opera 9.62:

Skin changelog for Opera 9.61:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.60:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.52:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.51:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.5:

Skin changelog for Opera 9.27:

Skin changelog for Opera 9.26:

Skin changelog for Opera 9.25:

Skin changelog for Opera 9.24:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.23:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.22:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.21:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.2:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.1:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.02:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.01:

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.0:

Skin changelogs for Opera 8.x:

Older skin changelogs:

Opera 10.00, 15. preview / beta, 1615 [⊗]

30. June 2009 - Skin changes since the preview 1606

As always; the standard skin is still work in progress:

  1. Skin.ini, changed sections: 
    [Pagebar Head Skin] (btw typo: `Margin bottm`)
[Pagebar Head Button Skin]
[Pagebar Floating Skin]
[Pagebar Floating Button Skin]
[Menu Button Skin]
[Main Menu Toolbar Button Skin]
  2. Skin.ini, new sections: 
    [Push Button Skin.disabled] (reactivated)
[Push Default Button Skin.disabled] (reactivated)

Some details, mentioned in the last changelog are solved now:

Note: the native skin have changed too.

Changed ini files:

- Your current version-number you find in Help - About Opera
- 10.00-1615 Download/Changelogs: Desktop team

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Opera 10.00, 14. preview / beta, 1606 [⊗]

26. June 2009 - Skin changes since the preview 1601

The standard skin is still work in progress:

  1. Skin.ini, changed sections: 
    [Pagebar Floating Skin]
[Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Button Skin]
[Pagebar Floating Button Skin]
[Pagebar Tail Skin]
[Push Default Button Skin]
[Web Turbo Mode Enabled Warning]
[Web Turbo Mode Box Notify]
[Web Turbo Mode Box Auto]
[Web Turbo Mode Disabled Box]

There are still some details I don`t like:

Note: also the native skin have changed again.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 10.00, 13. preview / beta, 1601 [⊗]

24. June 2009 - Skin changes since the preview 1589

The new standard skin is still work in progress: below you find lists of new/changed/deleted sections and entries.

  1. Skin.ini, section [Options]: the entry `Inverted Pagebar Icons = 1` is back. Also some inverted icons are back now (uncompleted imho).
  2. Skin.ini, new sections: 
    [Startbar Skin] (reintroduced)
[Mail Header Toolbar] (reintroduced)
[Web Turbo Mode Enabled Warning]
[Web Turbo Mode Disabled Warning]
  3. Skin.ini, changed sections: 
    [Progressbar Skin]
[Viewbar Skin.bottom]
[Addressbar Button Skin]
[Addressbar Skin]
[Web Turbo Mode Enabled]
[Web Turbo Mode Box]
[Web Turbo Mode Disabled]
  4. Skin.ini, section [Boxes], changed entry: 
    Widget = widgets/16px-full.png
  5. Skin.ini, section [Images], new entries: 
    Window Speed Dial Icon = icons/tab_speeddial.png
Enable mediumscreen mode.selected = buttons/fit_width_enabled.png
Menu Bookmarks = buttons/bookmarks_button.png
Menu Notes = icons/note.png
Menu Transfers = icons/download.png
Menu History = icons/tab_history.png
Menu Main Menu = icons/operamenu.png
Menu Widgets = widgets/22px.png
Menu Feeds = icons/feed.png
Menu Chat = icons/chat.png
Menu Mail = icons/mail_unread.png
Menu Tools = icons/tools.png
Menu File = icons/folder_closed.png
Menu Edit = icons/drafts.png
Menu View = icons/search.png
Menu Help = icons/trust_unknown.png
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Panel Contacts Inverted = icons/tab_contacts.png
Panel Transfers Inverted = icons/download.png
Panel Search Inverted = icons/search.png
Panel History Inverted = icons/tab_history.png
Panel Links Inverted = icons/tab_links.png
Panel Notes Inverted = icons/note.png
  6. Skin.ini, section [Images], changed entries: 
    Read mail = buttons/viewmail.png
Bookmarks = buttons/bookmarks_button.png
Select author mode = buttons/authormode.png
Select user mode = buttons/usermode.png
New chat room = buttons/new_room.png
Join chat room = buttons/join_room.png
Add Contact = buttons/add_contact.png
Send file = buttons/send_file.png
Who is = buttons/whois.png
Web Turbo Mode Info Icon = buttons/edit_properties.png
HTTP Basic Authentication Insecure Plain Info = buttons/edit_properties.png

Note: The `Fit to width`-button on the statusbar displays now it`s selected state. Unfortunately the normal and selected icons have different width and height, so other buttons on the same toolbar shifts a bit (drag any desired button to the left of the Fit to width-button and try it out).

Note: the native skin have changed too again.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 10.00, 12. preview / beta, 1589 [⊗]

16. June 2009 - Skin changes since the preview 1551

Note that the new skin is still work in progress, so a lot of changes are perhaps only temporary. Below you find lists of new/changed/deleted sections and entries.

New are the Unite services (your Pc as web server). New is also the direct possibility to hide the main menu bar (menu `File`: checkbox `Show menu bar`). You reach then the entire menubar with the button at the left of the Tab bar (please do not disable the tab bar head in the appearance dialog!), see also `Main menu button without arrow` below the lists.

  1. There are two new skin folders `/unite` and `/widgets`, but some of the unite- and widget-related things you find also in other folders.
  2. Skin.ini, section [Options]: the entry `Inverted Pagebar Icons` have changed it`s value from 1 to 0; no longer necessary. Also all the inverted icons are deleted now.
  3. Skin.ini, new section: There is a new section [Generic] containing only the entry `Line padding = 2`. I`m not sure about where I can find the effect.
  4. Skin.ini: All the `Text shadow` entries in several sections are deleted now - but they are still possible. I recommend to forbear from the use of text shadows on push buttons; can have negative influence on web buttons.
  5. Skin.ini, new sections: 
    [Toolbar Button Skin.disabled] subsection
[Addressbar Button Skin] and subsections
[Speed Dial Thumbnail Number Label Skin] unfortunately not for number text color
[Main Menu Toolbar Button Skin] area around menu button on tab bar
[Accesskeys Cycler Skin] bg for accesskeys cycler, Shift+Esc
[Accesskeys Cycler Item Skin] items in accesskeys cycler, Shift+Esc
  6. Skin.ini, changed sections: 
    [Pagebar Skin] and subsections
[Pagebar Close Button Skin] and subsections
[Pagebar Head Skin]
[Pagebar Head Button Skin] and subsections
[Pagebar Button Skin] and subsections, also deleted text shadow
[Pagebar Thumbnail Button Skin] and subsections
[Pagebar Thumbnail Title Skin] and subsections, deleted text shadow
[Security Button Skin]
[Low Security Button Skin]
[Untrusted Site Security Button Skin]
[High Assurance Security Button Skin]
[Hotlist Panel Header Skin] deleted text shadow
[Progressbar Popup Skin]
[Progress Empty Skin]
[Progress Full Skin]
[Edit Skin]
[Treeview Skin]
[Dropdown Search Resize Skin]
[Scrollbar Horizontal Skin]
[Scrollbar Horizontal Knob Skin]
[Scrollbar Horizontal Left Skin] and subsections
[Scrollbar Horizontal Right Skin] and subsections
[Scrollbar Vertical Skin]
[Scrollbar Vertical Knob Skin]
[Scrollbar Vertical Up Skin] and subsections
[Scrollbar Vertical Down Skin] and subsections
[Push Button Skin]
[Push Default Button Skin]
[Menu Button Skin]
[Toolbar Button Skin] and subsections, also deleted text shadow
[Extender Button Skin]
[Selector Button Skin] subsections
[Tab Button Skin] and subsections, deleted text shadow
[Statusbar Skin]
[Statusbar Button Skin] and subsections
[Addressbar Skin]
[Mailbar Skin] deleted text shadow
[Thumbnail Title Button Skin] deleted text shadow
[Speed Dial Thumbnail Title Label Skin] deleted text shadow
[Speed Dial Button Skin]
[Web Image Browser Skin]
  7. Skin.ini, deleted sections: 
    [Mail Header Toolbar]
  8. Skin.ini, section [Boxes], new entries: 
    Scrollbar Grip Vertical = scrollbar_knob/scroll_grip_vertical.png
Scrollbar Grip Horizontal = scrollbar_knob/scroll_grip_horizontal.png
  9. Skin.ini, section [Boxes], changed entry: 
    Widget
  10. Skin.ini, section [Boxes], deleted entries: 
    Scrollbar Grip
  11. Skin.ini, section [Images], new entries: 
    Panels.selected = icons/panel-toggle-closed.png
Panel Unite = buttons/unite.png
Panel Unite.attention = buttons/unite-attention.png
Panel Unite.hover = buttons/unite.png
Panel Unite.selected = buttons/unite-selected.png
Back.hover = buttons/back.png
Forward.hover = buttons/forward.png
Add service = buttons/toolbar-new.png
Feed Mark as read = buttons/feed-read.png
Transfer Default = icons/download.png
Main Menu = icons/operamenu.png (menu button on tab bar)
Unite Enabled = unite/unite_enabled.png,,,,,,,,,,0
Unite Disabled = unite/unite_disabled.png,,,,,,,,,,0
Unite Disabled.hover = unite/unite_hover.png,,,,,,,,,,0
Unite Failed = unite/unite_warning.png,,,,,,,,,,0
Unite Enabled Large = unite/unite-status-enabled-large.png
Unite Disabled Large = unite/unite-status-disabled-large.png
Unite Failed Large = unite/unite-status-warning-large.png
Edit Unite Service = unite/unite-info.png
Edit Unite Service.hover = unite/unite-info-hover.png
Edit Unite Service.disabled = unite/unite-info.png
Show Opera Unite Root = buttons/home.png
Unite Logo = unite/unite.png
Unite Panel Default = unite/unite_panel_default.png
Unite Trash = unite/unite-trash-closed.png
Unite Trash.open = unite/unite-trash-open.png
Unite Status Enabled = unite/unite_enabled.png
Unite Status Disabled = unite/unite_disabled.png
Unite Status Disabled.hover = unite/unite_hover.png
Unite Status Failed = unite/unite_warning.png
Unite Attention = unite/unite_attention.png
Unite Folder = unite/unite_folder.png
Unite Folder.open = unite/unite_folder_open.png
Goto Public Page = buttons/open_service.png
Start service = buttons/unite_start.png
Stop service = buttons/unite_stop.png
  12. Skin.ini, section [Images], changed entries: 
    New item menu = buttons/toolbar-new.png
Lock panel = buttons/lock_panel.png
Add widget = buttons/toolbar-new.png
New window = buttons/new_window.png
New Bookmark = buttons/add_to_bookmarks.png
New Contact = buttons/toolbar-new.png
New Folder = buttons/toolbar-new.png
Edit properties = buttons/edit_properties.png
Add to bookmarks = buttons/add_to_bookmarks.png
Add link to bookmarks = buttons/add_to_bookmarks.png
New chat room = buttons/toolbar-new.png
Add Contact = buttons/toolbar-new.png
View messages from contact = buttons/viewmail.png
Resume transfer = buttons/unite_start.png
Stop transfer = buttons/unite_stop.png
Restart transfer = buttons/retransfer.png
Open Link = buttons/open_link.png
Open widget = buttons/open_widget.png
New note = buttons/newnote.png
Trash Large.attention = icons/closed-tabs-attention.png
Link Disabled.hover = link/hover.png,,,,,,,,,,0
Link Status Failed = link/failed.png
Link Status Enabled = link/enabled.png
Link Status Disabled = link/disabled.png
Link Status Disabled.hover = link/hover.png
  13. Skin.ini, section [Images], deleted entries: 
    Panels Open
Panels Close
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Window Mail View Icon Inverted
Window Mail Compose Icon Inverted
Window Document Icon Inverted
Window Document Unread Icon Inverted
Window Document Loading Icon Inverted
Window Chat Room Icon Inverted
Window Chat Private Icon Inverted
Panel Search Inverted
Panel Bookmarks Inverted
Panel Mail Inverted
Panel Contacts Inverted
Panel History Inverted
Panel Transfers Inverted
Panel Links Inverted
Panel Windows Inverted
Panel Info Inverted
Panel Notes Inverted
Panel Widgets Inverted
Panel Chat Inverted
Account POP Inverted
Account IMAP Inverted
Folder Inverted
Label Important Inverted
Label Todo Inverted
Label Mail Back Inverted
Label Call Back Inverted
Label Meeting Inverted
Label Funny Inverted
Label Valuable Inverted
Mail Inbox Inverted
Mail Outbox Inverted
Mail Sentbox Inverted
Mail Drafts Inverted
Mail Trash Inverted
Mail Unread Inverted
Mail No Body Inverted
Mail Read Inverted
Mail Attachment Inverted
Mail Search Inverted
Mail Spam Inverted
Mail Filter Inverted
Mail Labels Inverted
Mail Attachments Inverted
Mail Searches Inverted
Attachment Music Inverted
Attachment Images Inverted
Attachment Video Inverted
Attachment Documents Inverted
Attachment Archives Inverted
Contact0 Inverted

About Main menu button without arrow: Unfortunately the menu button on the tab bar shows currently the menu arrow (menu `File`: checkbox `Show menu bar`). I hope this will change in the future - but here a temporary solution:

About a Tabbar-toggle button (which remembers your preferred tab-thumbnails height):

Note: the native skin have changed too again.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 10.00, 11. preview / beta1, 1551 [⊗]

3. June 2009 - Skin changes since the preview 1497 (and 1535)

A new skin! Below you find lists of new/changed/deleted sections and entries. New is also the possibility to draw text shadows.

  1. The skinfolder /dialog_page is deleted together with it`s content.
  2. Skin.ini, section [Options]: the entry `Pageclosebuttonontop = 1` is deleted, so the default value of `0` is valid.
  3. A new tool allows now to define the position and color for text shadows for toolbar and button sections. The syntax is as follows: 
    Text Shadow = X Y
Text Shadow Color = Z

    X is the horizontal difference in pixel to the right (negative values is to the left). Y is the vertical difference to the bottom (negative values is to the top). Z is a color in HEX as known from the common `Text color =` entries (eg `Shadow color = #FF0000` is red). Here an example:

    [Toolbar button skin]
...
Text color = #000000
...
Text shadow = 2 2
Text shadow color = #FF0000

    The above example draws black text with the red shadow 2 px to the right and 2px to the bottom. Another example:

    [Toolbar button skin]
...
Text color = #000000
...
Text shadow = -2 -2
Text shadow color = #FF0000

    The second example draws black text with the red shadow 2 px to the left and 2px to the top. `Text shadow = 0 0` have no effect. You cannot change the shadow-thickness. The shadow works with `Text bold = 1` (the shadow is then bold too), but there is no shadow for the underline if you set `Text underline = 1`)

  4. Skin.ini, new sections: 
    [Pagebar Thumbnail Skin]
[Pagebar Thumbnail Button Skin]
[Pagebar Thumbnail Head Skin]
[Pagebar Thumbnail Head Button Skin]
[Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Skin]
[Pagebar Thumbnail Floating Button Skin]
[Pagebar Thumbnail Tail Skin]
[Pagebar Thumbnail Tail Button Skin]
[Pagebar Thumbnail Title Skin]
[Splitter Vertical Divider Skin]
[Splitter Horizontal Divider Skin]
[Toolbar Skin]
[Toolbar Fallback Button Skin]
[Dropdown Search Resize Skin]
[Speed Dial Button Skin]
[Speed Dial Global Configuration Dialog Skin]
[Speed Dial Global Configuration Dialog Page Skin]
[Speed Dial Global Configuration Dialog No Alpha Skin]
[Web Turbo Mode Enabled]
[Web Turbo Mode Box]
[Web Turbo Mode Box Notify]
[Web Turbo Mode Box Auto]
[Web Turbo Mode Disabled]
[Web Turbo Mode Disabled Box]
  5. Skin.ini, changed sections: 
    [Browser Skin]
[Window Skin]
[Notifier skin]
[Pagebar Locked Button Skin]
[Pagebar Skin]
[Pagebar Close Button Skin] and subsections
[Pagebar Head Skin]
[Pagebar Head Button Skin] and subsections
[Pagebar Button Skin] and subsections
[Pagebar Floating Skin] and subsections
[Pagebar Floating Button Skin]
[Pagebar Tail Skin]
[Insecure Popup Header Skin] and subsections
[Hotlist Selector Skin] and subsections
[Hotlist Panel Skin]
[Hotlist Panel Header Skin]
[Progressbar Skin]
[Progressbar Popup Skin]
[Navigationbar Skin]
[Viewbar Skin]
[Mainbar Skin]
[Personalbar Skin]
[Dialog Skin]
[Dialog Page Skin]
[Edit Skin]
[Panel Treeview Skin] and subsections
[Treeview Skin]
[Menu Skin]
[Toolbar Button Skin] and subsections
[Selector Button Skin] and subsections
[Tab Button Skin] and subsections
[Tabs Skin]
[Statusbar Skin] and subsections
[Statusbar Button Skin] and subsections
[Addressbar Skin]
[Mailbar Skin]
[Mail Header Toolbar]
[Mail Browser Window Skin]
[Chatbar skin]
[Panel Full Toolbar Skin]
[Transfer Panel Details Skin]
[Panel Normal Toolbar Skin]
[Mail Compose Toolbar Skin]
[Mail Compose Window Skin]
[Speed Dial Widget Skin]
[Thumbnail Image Skin.hover] no main section!
[Thumbnail Image Skin.disabled] no main section!
[Thumbnail Title Button Skin]
[Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin] and subsections
[Speed Dial Search Widget Skin]
  6. Skin.ini, deleted sections: 
    [Thumbnail Image Skin] but other sections referring to this section!
[Speed Dial Thumbnail Title Button Skin]
  7. Skin.ini, section [Boxes], changed entries: 
    Speeddial Close
Speeddial Close Hover
  8. Skin.ini, section [Images], new entries: 
    New item menu = buttons/new_item.png
New window = buttons/new_item.png
Show Sent = icons/sent.png
Search Default Web = icons/search_default.png
Pagebar Thumbnail Busy Image = anims/reload.png
  9. Skin.ini, section [Images], changed entries: 
    Window Mail View Icon Inverted
Window Mail Compose Icon Inverted
Window Document Icon Inverted
Window Document Unread Icon Inverted
Window Document Loading Icon Inverted
Window Chat Room Icon Inverted
Window Chat Private Icon Inverted
Account POP Inverted
Account IMAP Inverted
Label Important Inverted
Label Todo Inverted
Label Mail Back Inverted
Label Call Back Inverted
Label Meeting Inverted
Label Funny Inverted
Label Valuable Inverted
Mail Inbox Inverted
Mail Outbox Inverted
Mail Sentbox Inverted
Mail Drafts Inverted
Mail Trash Inverted
Mail Unread Inverted
Mail No Body Inverted
Mail Read Inverted
Mail Attachment Inverted
Mail Search Inverted
Mail Spam Inverted
Mail Filter Inverted
Mail Labels Inverted
Mail Attachments Inverted
Mail Searches Inverted
Attachment Music Inverted
Attachment Images Inverted
Attachment Video Inverted
Attachment Documents Inverted
Attachment Archives Inverted
---
Stop mail
Stop sending mail
Close widget
Trash Large (but unfortunately not changed `Trash Large.attention`)
Link Enabled Large
Link Disabled Large
Link Failed Large
  10. Skin.ini, section [Images], deleted entries: 
    Web Turbo Mode Enabled
Web Turbo Mode Box
Web Turbo Mode Box Notify
Web Turbo Mode Box Auto
Web Turbo Mode Disabled
Web Turbo Mode Disabled Box
  11. Skin.ini: Please note also the [Drag scrollbar skin] and the entry `Drag Scrollbar Knob = drag_scrollbar/drag-knob.png`, both referring to the images in the skinfolder /drag_scrollbar (introduced in preview 1229) - the 3 dots with background for the tab thumbnail resizer.

Note: the native skin have changed too.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 10.00, 10. preview / alpha, 1535 [⊗]

27. May 2009 - The Skin changes since the preview 1497 are mentioned above in the changelog for 1551

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Opera 10.00, 9. preview / alpha, 1497 [⊗]

13. Mai 2009 - Skin changes since the preview 1491

Some new link icons:

  1. Skin.ini, section [Images]: new entry `Link Status Disabled.hover = link/link-hover-16px.png`, referring to the new image
  2. Skin.ini, section [Images]: the following entries have changed: 
    Link Status Failed = link/link-failed-16px.png
Link Status Enabled = link/link-enabled-16px.png
Link Status Disabled = link/link-disabled-16px.png

    referring now to the new images.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 10.00, 8. preview / alpha, 1491 [⊗]

8. Mai 2009 - Skin changes since the preview 1456

Some new or changed icons, changes for edit fields-attention, additions for the fallback behaviour in the standard-skin, new debug-mode for skins:

  1. The image `buttons/feed.png` have changed - no more round corners. Also the image `dialog_images\warning.png` have changed it`s appearance.
  2. Skin.ini, section [Images]: deleted entry `View hotlist = icons/tools.png` - that was an old one.
  3. Skin.ini, section [Images]: changed entry for the panels-button; changed from `Panels = icons/tools.png` to `Panels = icons/panel-toggle-open.png`. The new image panel-toggle-open.png replaces the old tools.png (icons/tools.png is deleted now).
  4. Skin.ini, section [Images]: additional entries for the panels-button; new are the entries `Panels Open = icons/panel-toggle-open.png` and `Panels Close = icons/panel-toggle-close.png`, referring to the new images. Seems to be unfinished; I never see the panel-toggle-close.png.
  5. Skin.ini, section [Images]: another group of additional entries: 
    Link Enabled Large = link/enabled.png
Link Disabled Large = link/disabled.png
Link Failed Large = link/failed.png
Link Status Failed = link/failed.png
Link Status Enabled = link/enabled.png
Link Status Disabled = link/disabled.png

    the above entries referring to already existing images.

  6. Skin.ini, section [Images]: once again changed entry for turbo; from `Web Turbo Mode Disabled = icons/turbo_disabled.png,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0` to `Web Turbo Mode Disabled = icons/turbo_disabled.png,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0`.
  7. Skin.ini, section [Images]: another change for turbo; from `Web Turbo Mode Info Icon = icons/unit_arrow.png` to `Web Turbo Mode Info Icon = icons/turbo_info.png` - the icon have changed it`s filename.
  8. Skin.ini, section [Images]: an additional entry for turbo; `Web Turbo Mode Disabled Box = ,,2,1,2,0,0,0,2,0,0` (if it works without specified icon...).
  9. Skin.ini: additional subsection [Edit Skin.attention], referring to the new images in the new folder `edit/attention/`. These images draws a red border around an edit-field (in which case?).
  10. Skin.ini: added `Fallback version = 3` for the [Mainbar Button Skin] and [Personalbar Button Skin] (these entries are made only for the standard-skin as `fallback-repository` - there is no need therefore in a custom skin).
  11. General: Please note the new checkbox `Opera:config - User prefs - Debug skin`. If the new option is checked (and `Show tooltips` is activated too) you see the new skin-info tooltips on hovered buttons. Very good idea, even if sometimes I cannot see the skin-info if another tooltip is available (eg turbo button) - and sometimes the info box appears but without info...

Changed ini files:

Please note, that there is a new ini-file; STANDARD_TRUSTED_REPOSITORIES.INI.

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Opera 10.00, 7. preview / alpha, 1456 [⊗]

24. April 2009 - Skin changes since the preview 1413

New subsections for different toolbar button areas, small changes in the pagebar background as well as in the turbo- and check_send-icons, deleted speeddial global... sections:

  1. Skin.ini: as expected we have now the new subsections .hover, .attention, .selected, .pressed, .mini, .hover.mini, .selected.mini and .pressed.mini as addition to the lately introduced [Mainbar Button Skin], [Personalbar Button Skin] and [Statusbar Button Skin]. All the new subsections are clones of the corresponding subsections from the [Toolbar button skin]. As mentioned in the changelog for 1413, the new sections/subsections provides separate areas around the icons on different toolbars. Note again that the new main sections have to correspond with the entries in the toolbar.ini - `Button skin=Mainbar Button Skin`, `Button skin=Personalbar Button Skin` and `Button skin=Statusbar Button Skin` - inside the relevant .style sections of the toolbar.ini. The [Link button skin] and it`s subsections (for the links on the personalbar) have still no effect - now the area around the personal links are set by the new [Personalbar Button Skin] and it`s subsections. Note also, that you can have separate icon areas for other toolbars too if you insert accordant entries into the toolbar.ini; I tried it with the Navigationbar and the Addressbar - worked like a charm.
  2. Skin.ini, section [Images]: the entry `Web Turbo Mode Disabled = icons/turbo_disabled.png,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0` have changed to `Web Turbo Mode Disabled = icons/turbo_disabled.png,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0` (the image `icons/turbo_disabled.png` is now 24x19 px like the other turbo icons).
  3. Skin.ini: Deleted are the sections [Speed Dial Global Configuration Dialog Skin], [Speed Dial Global Configuration Dialog Page Skin] and [Speed Dial Global Configuration Dialog No Alpha Skin] - this was a short stand.
  4. Adapted is again the mail check/send icon (buttons/check_send.png); seems to be only a transparency-change.
  5. Adapted seems to be also the behaviour on .mini toolbars (eg `Statusbar skin`); the mini argument seems to work now again for buttons AND dropdown fields or other widgets.
  6. Another adaption concerns the pagebar background; the image backgrounds/pagebar.png is now darker and the size is now 10x100 Px (formerly 74x33 px).

Changed ini files:

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Opera 10.00, 6. preview / alpha, 1413 [⊗]

3. April 2009 - Skin changes since the preview 1355

New sections for different toolbar button areas, additional sections for the speed dial configuration dialog, deleted sections, adaptions in the `Browser skin`, changed resize-knob for searchfields, new behaviour on mini toolbars, new mail icons, adapted check/send icon as well as adapted turbo icon/area:

  1. New are the sections [Mainbar Button Skin], [Personalbar Button Skin] and [Statusbar Button Skin]. They are currently clones of the `Toolbar button skin` and provides separate areas around the icons on toolbars. As it is now, you have to add .hover, .pressed and so on separately (eg [Mainbar Button Skin.hover]) in order to have really different areas around the icons. Please note that the new sections have to correspond with new entries in the toolbar.ini - `Button skin=Mainbar Button Skin`, `Button skin=Personalbar Button Skin` and `Button skin=Statusbar Button Skin` - inside the relevant .style sections of the toolbar.ini. Note also, that the [Link button skin] and it`s subsections (for the links on the personalbar) have currently no effect - now the area around the personal links are set by the new [Personalbar Button Skin] as mentioned. Finally we can have now different icon areas for different toolbars - not bad.
  2. New are also the sections [Speed Dial Global Configuration Dialog Skin], [Speed Dial Global Configuration Dialog Page Skin] and [Speed Dial Global Configuration Dialog No Alpha Skin] which are clones of the already existing `non Global` sections. I assume that the new sections are there for future use...
  3. Deleted are the sections [Dialog Wizard Header] and [Feature Setup Wizard Header Skin] - introduced in preview 1285.
  4. Adapted is the [Browser Skin]; there the entry `Tile Right = border/simple_border.png` is completely deleted - visible in the `Add contacts - General` dialog, the right border around the picture is lacking now. I don`t know the reason for this change - remember the [Web image browser skin] in this context (which is a clone of the [Browser skin]; if you add the deleted entry `Tile Right = border/simple_border.png` inside the [Web image browser skin] section, then the border is back without touching the Browser skin...).
  5. Changed is the resize-knob for searchfields; now you see a vertical dotted line instead of the `old` round knob (buttons/knob.png).
  6. New seems to be the behaviour on .mini toolbars (eg `Statusbar skin`); the mini argument seems to affect now only buttons, but no longer dropdown fields or other widgets. Seems to be something under construction...
  7. New compose html mail icons in the section [Images]; new are the entries `Mail Compose Left to right = html_compose/ltr.png` and `Mail Compose Right to left = html_compose/rtl.png` as well as the two png`s therefore.
  8. Adapted is the mail check/send icon; vertical arrows now instead of the old horizontal arrows (buttons/check_send.png).
  9. Adaptions also for the turbo icons; in the section [Images] the entry `Web Turbo Mode Disabled = icons/turbo_disabled.png,,4` have changed to `Web Turbo Mode Disabled = icons/turbo_disabled.png,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0` - this icon have changed also it`s size: from 16x16px to 24x20px (but `icons/turbo_enabled` is still 24x19px! why?)
  10. New are the entries `Web Turbo Mode Box Notify = icons/turbo_notification_box.png,,2,1,2,0,0,0,2,0,0` (blue area) and `Web Turbo Mode Box Auto = icons/turbo_auto_box.png,,2,1,2,0,0,0,2,0,0` (grey area) in [Images]; they seems to display the status of the new `Automatic turbo mode`, reachable in Tools - Preferences - Web pages - Opera turbo (also via the context menu of the turbo button).

Changed ini files (since the pre-turbo preview 1345!):

Please note, that some ini-file locations and names have changed too.

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Opera 10.00 1, 5. preview / turbo, 1355 [⊗]

13. March 2009 - Skin changes since the alpha 1345

Deleted link entries, new turbo entries/icons as well as a knob for the new resizable searchfield:

  1. New are the entries `Web Turbo Mode Enabled = icons/turbo_enabled.png,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0`, `Web Turbo Mode Box = icons/turbo_box.png,,2,1,2,0,0,0,2,0,0`, `Web Turbo Mode Disabled = icons/turbo_disabled.png,,4` and `Web Turbo Mode Info Icon = icons/unite_arrow.png` in the section [Images] for the corresponding new turbo icons and selected-background, most visible on the statusbar at the left. Note also the new turbo checkbox in Tools - Preferences - Web pages.
  2. New is the entry `Resize Knob = buttons/knob.png` in [Images] with the corresponding knob-icon for the new resizable searchfield, to see at the left of the searchfield in the address bar. The new searchfield is represented by the entry `Multiresizesearch` inside the toolbar.ini.
  3. Deleted are the entries Opera Account Enabled = account/enabled.png, Opera Account Disabled = account/disabled.png, Opera Account Failed = account/failed.png and Opera Account Busy = anims/reload.png in the section [Images] as well as the section [Account] and the skinfolder `account`- I assume that the entries/section/folder are only temporary deleted in this exceptional turbo edition.

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Opera 10.00, 4. preview / alpha, 1345 [⊗]

10. March 2009 - Skin changes since the alpha 1285

Changed backgrounds for security buttons in the addressfield, a corrected spinner animation, changed and added link icons:

  1. Changed skin.ini sections [Low Security Button Skin] and [Untrusted Site Security Button Skin]; both defined now as `Type = Boxstretch` referring to the new images `trust_and_security_button/low_security.png` (grey) and `trust_and_security_button/untrusted_site.png` (red). Deleted are the 8 tiles for the previous definition as Boxtile.
  2. The new spinner-animation anims/reload.png replaces now the old anims/reload.gif, so the following entries in the section [Images] have changed from .gif to .png: `;Pagebar Document Loading Icon = anims/reload.png`, `Mail Accounts Busy = anims/reload.png`, `Thumbnail Reload Image = anims/reload.png`, `Opera Account Busy = anims/reload.png` and `Quick Find Busy = anims/reload.png`.
  3. Changed are the images for the icons Link failed = link/failed.png,,,,,,,,,,0, Link enabled = link/enabled.png,,,,,,,,,,0 and Link disabled = link/disabled.png,,,,,,,,,,0 in the section [Images].
  4. New are the icons and entries for Link Disabled.hover = link/link_hover.png,,,,,,,,,,0, Link Logo = link/logo.png in the section [Images]. Also the entry Link Busy= anims/reload.gif have changed to the new Link Busy = link/busy.png,,,,,,,,,,0.

Please note the above commas; xy.png,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,k which represents the following parameters:

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Opera 10.00, 4. preview / alpha, 1285 [⊗]

12. February 2009 - Skin changes since the alpha 1229

Changed background for the tab bar at the left/right, as well as new possibilities for the extender menu button on the tab bar with new icons. Corrected `Cycler pages skin` and corrected call for the bookmarks menu button. New hover-color for the `Notifier skin`:

  1. Changed are the sections [Pagebar Skin.left] and [Pagebar Skin.right], formerly empty sections. Now the sections contains the `Type = Boxtile` entry and a call to the existing background image `Tile Center = backgrounds/dialog.png`. These changes gives now a dark background for the tab bar if set to Left or Right, however I suggest to use `Type = Image` for the new standard.skin - looks much better than `Type = Boxtile`.
  2. In addition also the [Pagebar Floating Skin.left] and [Pagebar Floating Skin.right] contains now a call: `Clone = Pagebar Button Skin` as well as the entry for `Fallback version = 3` (which is not necessary in a custom skin).
  3. Also the [Extender Button Skin] have changed. Formerly it was a clone of the bright Header Button Skin, now the existing dark `Tile Center = buttons/pagebar_button_inactive.png` is called as `Type = Boxstretch` as well as the padding/margin/spacing entries set to 0 (the margin/spacing entries seems to have no effect currently, padding shifts the arrow icon as expected).
  4. New are the sections [Dialog Wizard Header] and [Feature Setup Wizard Header Skin] which refers both to the existing bright-blue `Tile Center = backgrounds/menu-hover.png` defined as `Type = Boxstretch` with `Stretchborder = 1`. I have not yet found where I can see these headers.
  5. New are the entries `Extender Down Arrow = icons/arrow_down_bright.png` and `Extender Right Arrow = icons/arrow_right_bright.png` in the section [Boxes], calling the new bright arrow icons. These entries allows now to define separate icons for the [Extender Button Skin] mentioned above. The extender button skin seems to have a fixed width of 15px, so the icons/arrows cannot be wider (cropped), in the new standard skin they are both 7x7px. I appreciate these possibilities - now we can have individual icons for the extender menu button if the pagebar is set to top/bottom (right arrow) or left/right (down arrow) according to the chosen background in a custom skin. Formerly there appeared automatically the dark arrows scrollbar/right.png and scrollbar/down.png independent of the background.
  6. New is the entry `Bookmarks = buttons/bookmarks.png` in the section [Images], corresponding to the changed entry in the toolbar.ini inside the section [Customize Toolbar Browser.content] (mentioned below). Formerly the icon `Panel bookmarks` was in use with a wrong selected-effect for the bookmarks menu button.
  7. Deleted is the entry `Clone = Toolbar Skin` in the section [Cycler Pages Skin] (defines the area behind the tab cycler buttons, eg Ctrl+Tab); this section is empty now. The `Toolbar skin` is still working, but is not defined in the new standard skin.

Note: The hovered text color in the [Notifier skin] was invisible since the first opera 10 snapshot (eg in a mail notifier). Now this hover color have changed to a dark blue - but we cannot change this color (a [Notifier skin.hover] section have no effect). Formerly in 9.6x this color was red (unchangeable too). Note also, that the [Notifier skin] section in the standard-skin contains still the `Text color = #000000` entry twice and that there is also a probably unnecessary entry for `Color = Window`.

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Opera 10.00, 3. preview / alpha, 1229 [⊗]

13. January 2009 - Skin changes since the alpha 1219

A new section and it`s entries in the skin.ini, a changed section as well as some changes and additional entries in [Boxes] and [Images]. New behaviour for the lockpad on locked tabs.

  1. New is the skin.ini section [Drag scrollbar skin] and it`s entries: the Tile center = entry refers to the new image drag_scrollbar/dragbar-back.png, the Child0 = entry refers to the new entry Drag scrollbar knob in [Boxes], see below
  2. New is also the entry Drag scrollbar knob = drag_scrollbar/drag-knob.png in the section [Boxes] which refers to a new image too
  3. Outcommented/deleted is the entry Trash = icons/trash.png in [Boxes]. This entry was unnecessary and interfering with the correct trash entries
  4. The entry Padding bottom = in the section [Tabs skin] have changed the value from 1 to -1. This way the unsightly 1px slip at the bottom of the tabs (in tabbed dialogs) is gone
  5. Deleted is the entry Tile center = edit/center.png in the section [Edit skin]; also the center.png itselfs is deleted. It seems that this change have something to do with the black edit fields we had if there was a colorscheme activated (resolved now)
  6. New are also the following entries in the section [Images]: 
    Account POP Inverted = icons/tab_mail_unread.png
Account IMAP Inverted = icons/tab_mail_unread.png
Mail Labels Inverted = icons/tab_label_important.png
HTTP Basic Authentication Insecure Plain Info = buttons/info.png
Folder Inverted	= icons/tab_folder_closed.png
Trash Large.attention = icons/trash-attention.png

    Already existing are the images icons/tab_mail_unread.png and tab_label_important.png. New are the images icons/tab_folder_closed.png and icons/trash-attention.png. But the image buttons/info.png is lacking (I think it should be dialog_images/info.png)! The trash-attention.png is necessary for the trash icon in the tab bar - it`s behaviour have changed, following the changes in the toolbar.ini (section [Pagebar Tail.content]). The trash indicates now if there is a) nothing closed/blocked, b) closed pages or c) blocked popups. Perhaps the color difference between closed pages (trash_large.png) and blocked popups (trash-attention.png) can be a bit more clearly...

  7. Please note also; the following images have changed it`s color/brightness a little bit (they are a bit brighter now and have no longer a blue touch): 
    backgrounds/addressbar.png
backgrounds/dialog-tabs.png
backgrounds/hotlist.png
backgrounds/left_highlight.png
backgrounds/left_normal.png
backgrounds/panel-selector.png
backgrounds/panel-selector-bottom.png
backgrounds/panel-selector-top.png
backgrounds/statusbar.png
backgrounds/toolbars.png
  8. The section [Pagebar locked button skin] have a new behaviour. Formerly the lockpad icon `buttons/lock_page.png` on a locked tab was always automatically dimmed by Opera, so it was very difficult to create an always visible icon. But now the icon is no longer dimmed - see the first screenshot-part below. The second improvement here concerns the lockpad if `Show close button on each tab` is deactivated; the icon have now a correct space to the tabs text, see the second screenshot-part below:image

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Opera 10.00, 2. preview / alpha, 1219 [⊗]

22. December 2008 - Skin changes since the alpha 1139

A new button image for Mail-HTML-compose and it`s entry in the skin.ini, as well as an additional entry in [Images]

  1. New in the section [Images] is the entry Mail Compose Clear Formatting = html_compose/eraser.png (new image, 16x16px)
  2. New too in the section [Images] is the entry Link Busy = anims/reload.gif (existing gif-animation, 16x16px, in use also for other purposes)

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Opera 10.00, 1. preview / alpha, 1139 [⊗]

4. December 2008 - Skin changes since the final 9.62-10467

New button images and a new section for Mail-HTML-compose, changed images for the progress items as well as some new or changed icons in [Images]

  1. New is the skin.ini section [Mail compose multilineedit skin] which is a clone of the well known [Multilineedit skin]. The new section draws a 2px border around the edit-field. Please note the `Padding right = 0` entry - I assume this must be in order to prevent from having a border at the right of scrollbars there.
  2. New: in the sections [Propgress empty skin] and [Progress full skin] we have now `Type = Boxstretch` together with `Stretchborder = 2` instead of the old Boxtiles; new are the images progress/progress.png and progress/progress_full.png therefore - the old 18 png`s in the skinfolder progress/ are deleted. Note that Opera-versions before 9.5 cannot handle the `Boxstretch` type - there the type `Image` is valid then.
  3. New in the section [Images] are the entries Account Archive = icons/archives.png (existing image, 16x16px), Thread Button = buttons/thread.png (new image, 22x22px) and Homepage = buttons/home_blue.png (new image, 23x22px, copy of home.png). I don`t understand why this image have 23px width - all the other buttons are 22x22px! No, there are other incomprehensible exceptions: the icons/tools.png is 22x21px, icons/trash_large is 17x20px, also buttons/wand.png and buttons/wand_disabled.png are 23x22px!
  4. Changed are the transfer icons in [Images]; the icon icons/transfer_loading.png is now blue (formerly bright green). New is also the icon for Transfer Success = icons/transfer_success.png - this .png is new and now separate (bright green).
  5. Changed is the entry `Trash.attention = icons/trash_attention.png` (formerly referring to `icons/trash-attention.png` which is deleted now), but there is no new `trash_attention.png`! And: the .attention state have no effect on the trash-button in the pagebar tail as long as this button uses `Show HIDDEN popup menu...` as first button action inside [Pagebar Tail.content] in the toolbar.ini! If you exchange the entry 
    Button, M_CLOSED="Show hidden popup menu, "Closed Pages Menu",,,"Trash Large""

    with

    Button, M_CLOSED="Show popup menu, "Closed Pages Menu",,,"Trash Large" + Show hidden popup menu, "Closed Pages Menu""

    then a `Trash large.attention =` works as expected! Note also that `Trash.attention = ` should refer to a 16x16px icon, and not to the large version...

  6. New are the following 22 entries inside the section [Images], most of them referring to the new skinfolder html_compose/ and the 20 new images there. Please note that `icons/images.png` already exists and that `html_compose/plain_text.png` is lacking! 
    Mail Compose Bold         = html_compose/bold.png
Mail Compose Italic         = html_compose/italic.png
Mail Compose Underline      = html_compose/underline.png
Mail Compose Strikethrough  = html_compose/strikethrough.png
Mail Compose Bullet List    = html_compose/bullet_list.png
Mail Compose Numbered List  = html_compose/numbered_list.png
Mail Compose Decrease Size  = html_compose/decrease_text_size.png
Mail Compose Increase Size  = html_compose/increase_text_size.png
Mail Compose Indent         = html_compose/indent.png
Mail Compose Outdent        = html_compose/outdent.png
Mail Compose Center         = html_compose/center_align.png
Mail Compose Left           = html_compose/left_align.png
Mail Compose Right          = html_compose/right_align.png
Mail Compose Justify        = html_compose/justify.png
Mail Compose Superscript    = html_compose/superscript.png
Mail Compose Subscript      = html_compose/subscript.png
Mail Compose Text Color     = html_compose/text_color.png
Mail Compose Link           = html_compose/link.png
Mail Compose Images         = icons/images.png
Mail Compose Horizontal Line= html_compose/horizontal_line.png
Mail Compose Plain Text     = html_compose/plain_text.png
Mail Compose HTML           = html_compose/HTML.png

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Opera 9.64, final version, 10487 [⊗]

3. March 2009 - No skin changes since the final 9.63-10476

Changed ini files:

- Your current version-number you find in Help - About Opera
- 9.64-10487 Download: All platforms
- Changelogs: All platforms

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Opera 9.63, final version, 10476 [⊗]

16. December 2008 - Skin changes since the final 9.62-10467:

A new thread-button image and it`s entry in the skin.ini, as well as some changes in other ini-files

  1. New in the skin.ini is the entry Thread Button = buttons/thread.png in the section [Images] as well as the image buttons/thread.png therefore; to see in the mail-toolbar

Changed ini files:

- Your current version-number you find in Help - About Opera
- 9.63-10476 Download: All platforms
- Changelogs: All platforms

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Opera 9.62, final version, 10467 [⊗]

30. October 2008 - No skin changes since the final 9.61-10463

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Opera 9.61, final version, 10463 [⊗]

21. October 2008 - No skin changes since the final 9.60-10447:

No skin changes, but a changed entry in the toolbar.ini

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Opera 9.60, final version, 10447 [⊗]

8. October 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.60-10447

Same build number as the latest preview - no changes

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Opera 9.60, 9. preview, 10447 [⊗]

4. October 2008 - Skin changes since the preview 9.60-10443:

Some new icons and the concerned entries in the skin.ini

  1. New are the icons icons/mail_status_connected_lbm.png, icons/mail_status_disconnected_lbm.png and icons/mail_unread_lbm.png - the skin.ini entries therefore are mentioned below
  2. New are the following entries inside the section [Images]; Account POP LBM = icons/mail_unread_lbm.png, Account IMAP LBM = icons/mail_unread_lbm.png, Mail Accounts LBM = icons/mail_unread_lbm.png, Mail Accounts Online LBM = icons/mail_status_connected_lbm.png and Mail Accounts Offline LBM = icons/mail_status_disconnected_lbm.png, referring to the aforementioned new icons

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Opera 9.60, 8. preview, 10443 [⊗]

1. October 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.60-10439

Note:

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Opera 9.60, 7. preview, 10439 [⊗]

26. September 2008 - Skin changes since the preview 9.60-10433

A deleted and two new skin.ini sections, new icons and the additional entries therefore

  1. The section [Scroll Marker] is gone, but now we have the new sections [Scroll Marker Up] and [Scroll Marker Down]; in use are the same images from the skin-folder `/scroll_marker` as before, but the arrows appearing now as `Corner topleft/topright for `up` and `Corner bottomleft/bottomright` for `down`
  2. New are the icons `icons/mail_ignored.png`, `contacts/contact_followed.png` and `contacts/contact_ignored.png` - the skin.ini entries therefore are mentioned below
  3. New are the following entries inside the section [Images]; `Mail Ignored = icons/mail_ignored.png`, `Contact38 = contacts/contact_followed.png` and `Contact39 = contacts/contact_ignored.png` using the aforementioned new icons. The old entry `Mail Active Contacts = contacts/contact_known.png` have changed to `Mail Active Contacts = contacts/contact_followed.png` (the old image is still in use as `Contact0 = contacts/contact_known.png`)

Note again:
You can change the behaviour for the scroll marker: Opera:config - User Prefs - Enable Scroll Marker = 0 is Off (default), 1 is On (if you reach the top or bottom), 2 is On (always)

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Opera 9.60, 6. preview, 10433 [⊗]

19. September 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.60-10427

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Opera 9.60, 5. preview, 10427 [⊗]

12. September 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.60-10424

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Opera 9.60, 4. preview / beta1, 10424 [⊗]

10. September 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.60-10421

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Opera 9.60, 3. preview, 10421 [⊗]

5. September 2008 - Skin changes since the preview 9.60-10414

3 images for the scroll marker have changed, partly together with the entries/filenames

  1. The entries for the top/bottom tiles in the section [Scroll Marker] have changed from `scroll_marker/dash_line_anim.png` to `scroll_marker/bg-line.png` (so there is no more animation for the line); the new bright grey line image `scroll_marker/bg-line.png` replaces now `scroll_marker/dash_line_anim.png`
  2. Also the arrow images `scroll_marker/arrow-left.png` and `scroll_marker/arrow-right.png` have changed to a bright grey

Note:
You can change now the behaviour for the new scroll marker: Opera:config - User Prefs - Enable Scroll Marker = 0 is Off (default), 1 is On (if you reach the top or bottom), 2 is On (always) - in the last preview we had only On/Off with a checkbox

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Opera 9.60, 2. preview, 10414 [⊗]

29. August 2008 - Skin changes since the preview 9.60-10408

Two icon images are new, together with the entries in [Images]

  1. New are the entries Enable Text Selection Mode = buttons/text_select.png and Disable Text Selection Mode = buttons/pan.png in the section [Images]; these icons are new too. They are made for the button `Text selection On/Off` you find in Tools - Appearance - Buttons - Browser view (`Text selection Off` complies with `Scroll by drag`)

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Opera 9.60, 1. preview, 10408 [⊗]

22. August 2008 - Skin changes since the final 9.52-10108

New sections for `Incomplete message toolbar` and `Scroll marker`, additional icon entries and some new icons

  1. New is the skin.ini section [Incomplete Message Toolbar] - defines a new toolbar which appears in case of incomplete downloaded mails (due to `Low bandwith mode` available per account; note the new checkbox in Tools - Mail and Chat accounts - Edit - Incoming); the `Incomplete message toolbar` appears then above the mail body and includes the button `Fetch complete message` (after pressing this button you have to check mail again in order to complete the download - here with a pop-account - why not directly... ?)
  2. New is also the section [Scroll Marker] - defines the left/right arrows and the animated .png (apng) as dotted line to find in the new skinfolder scroll_marker/. The scrollmarker you have to enable in Opera:config-User Prefs-Enable Scroll Marker - to see then while scrolling
  3. New are also the entries `Mail Unread No Body = icons/mail_unread_nobody.png`, `Mail Ignored No Body = icons/mail_ignored_nobody.png` and `Incomplete Message image = buttons/mail-incomplete.png` in the section [Images] - referring to the new icon images (the new icon `buttons/mail-incomplete.png` seems to be a smaller copy of the `dialog_images/info.png`)
  4. New are also the entries `Mail Followed No Body = icons/bookmark_unvisited.png` and `Mail Followed = icons/bookmark.png` in Images] - in use are here the already existing icons
  5. Note also the changed `icons/mail_nobody.png`

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Opera 9.52, final version, 10108 [⊗]

20. August 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.52-10108

Same build number as the latest preview - no changes

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Opera 9.52, 6. preview, 10108 [⊗]

15. August 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.52-10107

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Opera 9.52, 5. preview, 10107 [⊗]

14. August 2008 - Skin changes since the preview 9.52-10103

A new icon entry in the skin.ini and corrected problems with Mail view and Window document icons

  1. New is the entry `Mail Draft = icons/drafts.png` in [Images]. The icon is already exixting.

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Opera 9.52, 4. preview, 10103 [⊗]

8. August 2008 - Skin changes since the preview 9.52-10100

There are some changed skin.ini sections and two new icons.

  1. Deleted the entry `Height = 30` in [Pagebar skin] (more than 30 shifted the icons/images on the head/tail and the plus-icon/arrow to the top)
  2. Changed the `Text color = #D0D0D0` to `Text color = E0E0E0` in [Pagebar button skin] - it`s a brighter grey in order to differ better between unread and normal tabs
  3. Added `Padding right = 1` and `Color = Window` in [Edit skin]. The new right padding gives 1px less space between the right border and the content, eg icons at the right of the address field (due to the default of 2px). The window color is defined now through the operating system (there are differences: `Color = window` draws a 1px border on top of the defined border and draws also the inner-behind-text-part of some edit/search fields. But every other color here draws only the 1px border on top of the defined border)
  4. Changed Margins and deleted Paddings in [Push button skin] and [Push default button skin]. But Margins have no effect here and paddings shifts only the text inside the button (now the default of 2px padding is valid). If you like to see more space around the push buttons you have to change the paddings for the [Dialog Button Border Skin] (btw. `Spacing=` in the [Dialog Button Border Skin] seems to have no effect)
  5. Deleted the sections [Push button skin.disabled] and [Push default button skin.disabled], but they can still be in use if you don`t like the automatically dimmed images (to see eg in the `Tools - Mail and Chat accounts - Add...` dialog)
  6. Added the forgotten section [Start popup skin] which draws the individual background for the Start bar
  7. Added `Padding top = 1` and `Padding bottom = 2` to the [Addressbar skin], so we have now 1px less because of the default padding of 2px for both. Added also `Margin top = 0` and `Margin bottom = 0` - which have no effect here
  8. Added the lacking entry `Lock panel = buttons/lock_page.png` which refers to the already existing `buttons/lock_page.png`; it`s for the missed `Lock panel - button` in the Links panel - the padlock is in use also for locked tabs (ways to dark there imho)
  9. Added the entry `Mail Filter Inverted = icons/tab_filter.png` - this icon is new - for the use on the tabs
  10. Added the entry `Contact0 Inverted = icons/tab_from.png` - this icon is new too - for the use on the tabs

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Opera 9.52, 3. preview, 10100 [⊗]

1. August 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.52-10092

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Opera 9.52, 2. preview, 10092 [⊗]

18. July 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.52-10089

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Opera 9.52, 1. preview, 10089 [⊗]

11. July 2008 - No skin changes since the final 9.51-10081

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Opera 9.51, final version, 10081 [⊗]

3. July 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.51-10081.

Same build number as the latest preview - no changes

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Opera 9.51, 4. preview, 10081 [⊗]

1. July 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.51-10080.

Please note that in 9.5x several older bugs are settled now, above all:

The work on the revised skin guide is still in progress - currently I`m verifying and adjusting all the old knowledge...

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Opera 9.51, 3. preview, 10080 [⊗]

27. June 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.51-10074.

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Opera 9.51, 2. preview, 10074 [⊗]

25. June 2008 - No skin changes since the preview 9.51-10071, but this time I examined the new fallback behaviour in 9.5x a bit.

About the new fallback behaviour:

In 9.27 and older versions we had several skin parts without own skin sections; therefore we had some general sections, eg `Window skin` or `Browser window skin`. But since 9.5 we have own sections for much more skin parts; some worked before too and some are new. So it was necessary to introduce a new fallback behaviour, otherwise the new or changed parts appears also in older custom skins used with 9.5x as strange elements.

  1. In a custom skin used only for 9.27 and older versions, the entry `Version = 3` in [Info] have no effect; the old entry `Version = 2` is still valid then. The fallback behaviour in 9.27 is always: a lacking section have first fallback to the SAME section from the old standard-skin, and if this section is lacking too there, then the fallback goes to the BASE section from the custom-skin (and if the base is lacking too in the custom-skin, then fallback is the corresponding base from old standard-skin). Please note, that the BASE section means eg `Window skin` is the base of `Addressbar skin`, and the SAME section means eg `Addressbar skin` from the custom-skin - `Addressbar skin` from the old/new standard-skin.
  2. In a custom skin for 9.5x (and older versions) the entry `Version =` in [Info] have effect under several circumstances:

In comparison:

Sections which have the `Fallback version = 3` entry in the new standard-skin:

  1. [Addressbar Skin]
  2. [Chatbar skin]
  3. [Mailbar Skin]
  4. [Mail Compose Toolbar Skin]
  5. [Mail Compose Window Skin]
  6. [Mail Header Toolbar]
  7. [Mainbar Skin]
  8. [Menu Skin]
  9. [Navigationbar Skin]
  10. [Pagebar Floating Skin]
  11. [Pagebar Floating Button Skin]
  12. [Pagebar Skin]
  13. [Pagebar Head Skin]
  14. [Pagebar Head Button Skin]
  15. [Pagebar Tail Skin]
  16. [Panel Full Toolbar Skin]
  17. [Panel Treeview Skin]
  18. [Personalbar Skin]
  19. [Statusbar Skin]
  20. [Transfer Panel Details Skin]
  21. [Viewbar Skin]

Summary about the new fallback behaviour: it`s not that easy to handle since the old standard skin is no longer available for fallback; with Version = 3 or 2 in [Info] we can choose now if a custom skin should have fallback to the new/additional sections or in the old way (as said: without the old standard-skin then).

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Opera 9.51, 1. preview, 10071 [⊗]

20. June 2008 - No significant skin changes since the final 9.51-10063

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Opera 9.5, final version, 10063 [⊗]

Out 12. June 2008 - Skin changes since 9.27:

9.5, New/changed icon entries in the section [Boxes]:

  1. Widget = buttons/widget.png (was in [Images] in 9.27)
  2. Trash = icons/trash.png (bug: same entry now in [Boxes] and [Images]!)
  3. Scrollbar Grip = scrollbar_knob/scrollbar-overlay.png (new)

9.5, New/changed icon entries in the section [Images]:

  1. Window Mail View Icon Inverted = icons/tab_mail_unread.png (new)
  2. Window Mail Compose Icon Inverted = icons/tab_drafts.png (new)
  3. Window Document Icon Inverted = icons/tab_page.png (new)
  4. Window Document Unread Icon Inverted = icons/tab_page_unread.png (new)
  5. Window Document Loading Icon Inverted = icons/tab_page_loading.png (new)
  6. Window Chat Room Icon Inverted = icons/tab_chat.png (new)
  7. Window Chat Private Icon Inverted = icons/tab_chat.png (new)
  8. Panel Search.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  9. Panel Search.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  10. Panel Search Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  11. Panel Bookmarks.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  12. Panel Bookmarks.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  13. Panel Bookmarks Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  14. Panel Mail.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  15. Panel Mail.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  16. Panel Mail Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  17. Panel Contacts.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  18. Panel Contacts.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  19. Panel Contacts Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  20. Panel History.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  21. Panel History.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  22. Panel History Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  23. Panel Transfers.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  24. Panel Transfers.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  25. Panel Transfers Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  26. Panel Links.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  27. Panel Links.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  28. Panel Links Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  29. Panel Windows.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  30. Panel Windows.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  31. Panel Windows Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  32. Panel Info.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  33. Panel Info.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  34. Panel Info Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  35. Panel Notes.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  36. Panel Notes.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  37. Panel Notes Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  38. Panel Widgets.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  39. Panel Widgets.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  40. Panel Widgets Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  41. Panel Chat.hover = buttons/search.png (new)
  42. Panel Chat.selected = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  43. Panel Chat Inverted = buttons/search-selected.png (new)
  44. First Time Setup Dialog = dialog_images/opera.png (Deleted now)
  45. Expand Enabled = expand_button/icon-enabled.png (new)
  46. Expand Disabled = expand_button/icon-disabled.png (new)
  47. New page = buttons/new_item_cross.png (important; changed icon to `+`sign for tab bar)
  48. Lock panel = buttons/lock.png (missing in 9.5, also the .png)
  49. Close clicked page = icons/panel_collapse_small.png (new)
  50. Widget = buttons/widget.png (moved to [Boxes])
  51. No Security = buttons/security_0.png, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 (4px margin right now)
  52. Low Security = buttons/security_1.png, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 (4px margin right now)
  53. Medium Security = buttons/security_2.png, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 (4px margin right now)
  54. High Security = buttons/security_3.png, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 (4px margin right now)
  55. Extended Security = buttons/security_4.png, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 (new)
  56. High Security Simple = buttons/secure.png, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 (new)
  57. Trust Information = buttons/trust_info.png, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 (4px margin right now)
  58. Trust Unknown = buttons/trust_unknown.png, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 (4px margin right now)
  59. Trust Fraud = buttons/trust_fraud.png, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 (4px margin right now)
  60. Discard draft = buttons/delete.png (new)
  61. History = icons/history.png (new)
  62. Target Folder = icons/folder_closed_link.png (new)
  63. Trash Large = icons/trash_large.png (new, and missing `Trash large.attention`!)
  64. Label Important Inverted = icons/tab_label_important.png (new)
  65. Label Todo Inverted = icons/tab_label_todo.png (new)
  66. Label Mail Back Inverted = icons/tab_label_mail_back.png (new)
  67. Label Call Back Inverted = icons/tab_label_call_back.png (new)
  68. Label Meeting Inverted = icons/tab_label_meeting.png (new)
  69. Label Funny Inverted = icons/tab_label_funny.png (new)
  70. Label Valuable Inverted = icons/tab_label_valuable.png (new)
  71. Mail Inbox Inverted = icons/tab_received.png (new)
  72. Mail Outbox Inverted = icons/tab_outbox.png (new)
  73. Mail Sentbox Inverted = icons/tab_sent.png (new)
  74. Mail Drafts Inverted = icons/tab_drafts.png (new)
  75. Mail Trash Inverted = icons/tab_trash.png (new)
  76. Mail Unread Inverted = icons/tab_mail_unread.png (new)
  77. Mail No Body = icons/mail_nobody.png (new)
  78. Mail No Body Inverted = icons/tab_mail_nobody.png (new)
  79. Mail Read Inverted = icons/tab_mail_read.png (new)
  80. Mail Attachment Invertedn = icons/tab_mail_attachment.png (new)
  81. Mail Search Inverted = icons/tab_search.png (new)
  82. Mail Spam Inverted = icons/tab_spam.png (new)
  83. Mail Filter = icons/filter_closed.png (new, and missing `Mail filter inverted`)
  84. Mail Filter.open = icons/filter_open.png (new)
  85. Mail All Messages = icons/mail_read.png (new)
  86. Mail Active Contacts = contacts/contact_known.png (new)
  87. Mail Active Threads = icons/thread.png (new)
  88. Mail Labels = icons/label_important.png (new)
  89. Mail Attachments = icons/mail_attachment.png (new)
  90. Mail Attachments Inverted = icons/tab_mail_attachment.png (new)
  91. Mail Mailing Lists = contacts/mailing_list.png (new)
  92. Mail Accounts = icons/mail_unread.png (new)
  93. Mail Accounts Online = icons/mail_status_connected.png (new)
  94. Mail Accounts Offline = icons/mail_status_disconnected.png (new)
  95. Mail Accounts Busy = anims/reload.gif (new, animated gif)
  96. Mail Newsgroups = icons/news_group.png (new)
  97. Mail Newsfeeds = buttons/feed.png (new)
  98. Mail Searches = icons/search.png (new)
  99. Mail Searches Inverted = icons/tab_search.png (new)
  100. ;View attachments = icons/mail_attachment.png (deleted now, already not used in 9.27)
  101. ;View thumbnails = icons/mail_thumbnails.png (deleted now, already not used in 9.27)
  102. Attachment Music Inverted = icons/tab_music.png (new)
  103. Attachment Images Inverted = icons/tab_images.png (new)
  104. Attachment Video Inverted = icons/tab_video.png (new)
  105. Attachment Documents Inverted = icons/tab_documents.png (new)
  106. Attachment Archives Inverted = icons/tab_archives.png (new)
  107. News No Body = icons/news_nobody.png (new)
  108. Transfer Size Mismatch = icons/transfer_size_mismatch.png (bug: image have no alpha channel)
  109. Prefs Personal = contacts/contact_known.png (deleted now, already not used in 9.27)
  110. Prefs Browser = buttons/view.png (deleted now, already not used in 9.27)
  111. Prefs Pages = icons/page.png (deleted now, already not used in 9.27)
  112. Prefs Extensions = buttons/save.png (deleted now, already not used in 9.27)
  113. Prefs Network = buttons/security_3.png (deleted now, already not used in 9.27)
  114. Prefs None = icons/none.png (deleted now, already not used in 9.27)
  115. DOM Console = buttons/dom_console.png (new)
  116. Opera Account Enabled = account/enabled.png (new)
  117. Opera Account Disabled = account/disabled.png (new)
  118. Opera Account Failed = account/failed.png (new)
  119. Opera Account Busy = anims/reload.gif (new, animated gif)
  120. Quick Find Busy = anims/reload.gif (new, animated gif in quickfind field)
  121. Link Failed = link/failed.png (new)
  122. Link Enabled = link/enabled.png (new)
  123. Link Disabled = link/disabled.png (new)
  124. Add/Remove Panels = buttons/new_item_cross_panel.png (new, the `+`sign in the panel selector)
  125. Sync now = link/enabled.png (new)
  126. About the mail header icons: these is a relict from Opera 7, but now it can be reawakened. You find the outcommented entries at the end of the skin.ini for 9.5, together with a note about 80px reserved space/right margin. Use them as the following example: Mail Unread Header = icons/filter_open.png,,,,-60 The example draws the icon in front of the status title in the mailbar with margin right of -60px (note that only `Margin right` works - other space have to be inside your image). Please note also, that the headers are completed now with the new entry Mail Filter Header.

- Your current version-number you find in Help - About Opera
- 9.5-10063 Download: all platforms
- Changelog: all platforms

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Opera 9.5, 37.preview, 10057 [⊗]

10. June 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-10051:

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Opera 9.5, 36.preview, 10051 [⊗]

6. June 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-10048:

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Opera 9.5, 35.preview, 10048 [⊗]

5. June 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-10034:

Remarks:

Classic-skin, new/changed:

  1. Most important change is the file name, the old skin is now called classic_skin.zip (with this change, the skin works no longer as fallback-skin).
  2. Added in the skin.ini inside the section [Options] are the entries Large images = 0, Fallback background = 1 and Fallback foreground = 1. The Large images = 0 entry prevents from appearing the checkbox `Large images` in Appearance - Toolbars (there are no separate large images in this skin). The Fallback... entries says that if a section in this skin is lacking, there should be displayed the accordant section from the standard-skin (except [Info] and [Options]).
  3. Changed is the complete section [Browser skin], most important is there the Padding right = 0 entry - so the 1px at the right of the scrollbar is now in use too! In previous skin versions this change produced bad effects in the background for the contact picture (Contact properties - General), but since we have there an own skin (see below), the problem is gone.
  4. New is the section [Web Image Browser Skin] which draws the background for the picture mentioned above; it is a clone of the Browser skin but here with Padding right = 1.

Standard-skin, new:
Please note, that it is not yet possible to report about every detail here; so I have to focus a bit to the most important differences - details follows by and by. Note also, that a lot of the new things are `work in progress`, so they may change again until the skin is finished.

  1. The new skin is now the standard_skin.zip - please never change the file name or the location of the standard-skin, this skin works as fallback for lacking or future things.
  2. Changed is the version entry in the section [Info], now it`s Version = 3 and it means approx. that this skin uses all the new things. The old value Version = 2 is still valid for an old custom skin; there the new things should not appear - so it is not necessary to change the version in an old custom skin!
  3. If you take the new standard-skin as base for a custom skin, the most important is to change first the Fallback entries to the value 1 in the section [Options]. Please change then from Fallback background = 0 and Fallback foreground = 0 to Fallback background = 1 and Fallback foreground = 1. So you are sure, that lacking sections or lacking entries in [Boxes] and [Images] in your custom skin are drawn by the standard-skin (except [Info] and [Options])! Default values for both is 1 if the entries not exists. For a custom skin, based on the new standard skin, it is also recommended to remove all the Fallback version = 3 entries you find in a lot of the sections - these entries are made for the standard-fallback-skin only in order to define the fallback behaviour for custom skins (if a custom skin have Version = 3 in [Options] then this skin have fallback to all the sections with Fallback version = 3, but if a custom skin is defined as Version = 2 in [Options] then this skin have no fallback to the sections with Fallback version = 3).
  4. New is the entry Pageclosebuttonontop = 1 in the section [Options]; the value 1 draws the pagebar close buttons on top of the tabs, value 0 draws the close buttons vertically centered. Default value is 0 if the entry not exists.
  5. New is also the entry Inverted Pagebar Icons = 1 in [Options]; since the tabs have a dark background, it is necessary to have alternative color-inverted icons which appearing there. The new skin have already such icons, eg icons/tab_label_todo.png which is inverted in comparison to icons/label_todo.png. So the value 1 displays inverted icons, but with value 0 you see the normal icons on the tabs. Default is 0 if the entry not exists. Here I have to mention something unfinished; also the pagebar head and tail have a dark background now, but there are no inverted icons possible...

So, that was a first portion of info. I`m perhaps sometimes wrong or not yet that precise with my statements about the new skin, but I hope it helps for the first tries - follows more.

Changed ini files:

- Your current version-number you find in Help - About Opera
- 9.5-10048 Download and changelog: Desktop team

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Opera 9.5, 34.preview, 10034 [⊗]

30. Mai 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-10024:

New:

  1. New in the skin.ini: the entry Mail Draft = icons/drafts.png which refers to the already existing image icons/drafts.png
  2. Addendum: since preview-10018 we have a changed hover color - the old yellow tint have changed to a light `grey-violet-blue`.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 33.preview, 10024 [⊗]

28. Mai 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-10014:

Changed:

  1. All the tiles from the skin folder /a are changed a bit; now only the blue border without blueysh center is displayed for spatial navigation (the new tiles eats now 34 kb file size instead of 2.5kb before!)
  2. I have to correct something, in the changelog for 9789 I said: "...that the additional section [Active element inside image] is not mandatory; delivers only the items for [Active element inside] via Clone = Active element inside image...". This is not or no longer true, but true is that the section [Active element inside image] draws the blue border without center for spatial navigation (and delivers also the blue border for [Active element inside] via clone - there with the center too).

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 32.preview, 10014 [⊗]

23. Mai 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-10005:

New:

  1. New entry in the section [Images]; Mail filter.open = icons/folder_open.png referring to the existing image icons/folder_open.png - for the filter-folders in the mail panel views
  2. Correction in the skin.ini, from [Cycler page button skin.attention.selected] to the correct [Cycler page button skin.selected.attention], so now the blue text color works also on selected/unread lines in the tab cycler (Ctrl+Tab)

Still unfinished:

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 31.preview, 10005 [⊗]

20. Mai 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9981:

New:

  1. New in the skin.ini are the sections [Address dropdown URL label] and [Address dropdown title label]. For both you can change only the `Text color=`. In case of the URL label the color is currently green (Text color = #006600) and for the title label it is blue (Text color = #000099)
  2. New in the section [Images] is the entry News no body = icons/news_nobody.png which refers to the new image icons/news_nobody.png (a dimmed version of the existing image icons/news_unread.png)
  3. New in [Images] are the following entries too: Discard draft = buttons/delete.png, Move to trash = icons/trash.png and Mail filter = icons/folder_closed.png (these entries referring to existing images)
  4. In case of the `Mail filter` mentioned above, you can add also the entry `Mail filter.open = icons/folder_open.png` so the old behaviour eg in the mail panel is back - with the major difference, that we have now the possibility to create own icons for the mail filters

Note:

Still unfinished:

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 30.preview, 9981 [⊗]

9. Mai 2008 - No skin changes since the preview-9972:

Still unfinished:

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 29.preview, 9972 [⊗]

6. Mai 2008 - Skin changes since the preview / beta2-9945:

New:

  1. Skin.ini: Added Text color = #000000 to the section [Notifier], so now we are able to set the text color there (but we still cannot change the Red hover color in the notifier!)
  2. Skin.ini: New additional sections [Cycler page button skin.attention] and [Cycler page button skin.attention.selected] for a tab-analog behaviour in the page cycler (Ctrl+Tab). But there is a bug though: .attention.selected doesn`t works - it have to be .selected.attention!
  3. Skin.ini: New entry in the section [Images], Target folder = icons/folder_closed_link.png referring to the new/added icon image
  4. Skin.ini: New entry in the section [Images], Trash large = icons/trash.png, the icon therefore is already existing
  5. New icon-image icons/folder_closed_link.png as mentioned above
  6. The icons/dropup.png image is back; that was lacking since preview-9807

Changed:

  1. Skin.ini: Changed entry in the section [Images], from Thumbnail busy image = progress/busy_anim.GIF to Thumbnail busy image = progress/busy_anim.PNG, so now we have here an Apng-animation (which have 32kb file size!)

Notes:

Still unfinished:

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 28.preview / beta2, 9945 [⊗]

24. April 2008 - No skin changes since the preview-9937:

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 27.preview, 9937 [⊗]

17. April 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9903:

Changed:

  1. The images buttons/secure.png and buttons/security_4.png have changed a little bit: before they had a size of 17x22px, now they are 22x22px and at the left I see now 2px invisible border and at the right 3px, in order to have some space between the icons and the following text.
  2. Changed is also the icon icons/mail_nobody.png which is now a dimmed envelope instead of the old broken envelope (incomprehensible is for me the file size of 2805 bytes; my preferred program compresses this png to 324 bytes...).

Notes:

Still unfinished:

  1. No changes in the unfinished `Menu skin` (may appear also in the menu buttons), `Tooltip skin` (no padding for common tooltips) and `Browser skin` (1px padding right is bothering the use of scrollbar knob), mentioned in the last changelogs.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 26.preview, 9903 [⊗]

8. April 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9864:

New/changed:

  1. New button-images buttons/secure.png and buttons/security_4.png with the corresponding entries in the skin.ini inside the section [Images]: High security simple = buttons/secure.png and Extended security = buttons/security_4.png (secure.png is a closed padlock in silver/grey and security_4.png is a closed padlock in gold/yellow). The new button.images appearing certificate-related inside the addressbar together with the new background therefore, but also the changed security button, reachable in Tools - Appearance - Buttons - Browser view, uses the new images.
  2. Changed are the sections [Security button skin] and [High assurance security button skin]: for both the old boxtile images are deleted - there are now the new boxstretch images trust_and_security_button/high_security.png (yellow for the `security button skin` - padlock silver/grey) and the trust_and_security_button/extended_security.png (green for the `high assurance security button skin` - padlock gold/yellow). It is highly recommended to draw these backgrounds in yellow and green and set colorize = 0, so these security items appears always and in each skin with approx. the same colors. In my opinion it is not a good idea to change the [Security button skin] to the type `Boxstretch`; this section is in use also in Opera versions before 9.5 (no boxstretch there), so such a custom skin is not compatible with the older Opera versions! Unclear is also the behaviour of all the `Fraud protection` items which appeared formerly on the same place in the addressbar.

Deleted:

  1. Deleted are some old entries in the section [Images]: Prefs Personal = contacts/contact_known.png, Prefs Browser = buttons/view.png, Prefs Pages = icons/page.png, Prefs Extensions = buttons/save.png, Prefs Network = buttons/security_3.png, Prefs None = icons/none.png (deleted are only the entries, but not the images - they appeared in the old preferences dialog in Opera before version 8).
  2. As mentioned above; the old security related background images are deleted: trust_and_security_button/high_assurance_bottom.png, high_assurance_center.png, high_assurance_left.png, high_assurance_top.png as well as trust_and_security_button/security_border.png and security_center.png (please note the comment about the changed `Security button skin` above!).

Notes:

Still unfinished:

  1. No changes in the unfinished `Menu skin`, `Tooltip skin` and `Browser skin` (Padding right there), mentioned in the last changelogs.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 25.preview, 9864 [⊗]

28. March 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9841:

New/changed:

  1. New icon-image icons/history.png with the corresponding entry in the skin.ini inside the section [Images]: History = icons/history.png (it is a smaller copy of the known `buttons/history.png`; appears where?).
  2. Changed back Padding right = 0 to Padding right = 1 inside the section [Browser skin]. A regression in my opinion; so the scrollbar have again 1px at the right which is not in use in order to scroll - unhandy!

Still unfinished:

  1. No changes in the unfinished `Menu skin` and `Tooltip skin`, mentioned in the last changelog.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 24.preview, 9841 [⊗]

18. March 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9815:

New/changed:

  1. New icon-image icons/widget_large.png with the corresponding entry in the skin.ini inside the section [Boxes]: Widget icon = icons/widget_large.png (it is a larger copy of the known `buttons/widget.png`; appears where?).
  2. The old unused sections [Startup dialog skin] and [Startup dialog header skin] are deleted now (the `Startup dialog skin` is still working).
  3. The section [Boxes] is moved to it`s old place above the `Images` section.

New/unfinished:

  1. The new section [Menu skin] uses now the correct `Browser window skin` if the section not exists; compatible now to older versions. But there is still the strange behaviour: if a boxtile or color is set for the `Menu skin`, this image/color appears in each hovered `Menu button`...
  2. In the section [Menu button skin] we can use now Margin too, so we have more possibilities to customize the menu bar. But the margins here are a bit strange; perhaps you have to increase the paddings too, because it seems that margin `eats` some padding...
  3. The paddings for the [Tooltip skin] still affects the speeddial thumbs and not as expected the common tooltips! For the speeddial thumbs we are already able to set padding in the section [Thumbnail widget skin]...

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 23.preview, 9815 [⊗]

29. February 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9807:

New:

  1. New section [Menu skin] which allows to set a color or images separately for the menu bar. It seems NOT to be compatible with older Opera versions; if the new section not exists you see there now the [Window skin] (before it was the [Browser window skin]). Padding is currently not possible in this section; the only feasible padding here comes still from the [Menu button skin] (which is not a `toolbar padding`) - so the new section is not fully customizable and not backwards compatible (not yet, so I hope). ADDENDUM: If in the new section a border is defined or for instance images as boxtile, the `Menu skin` appears in each hovered menu button as repetition - obviously the new thing is not yet finished...
  2. New behaviour for the [Tooltip skin]: we can use now padding there, but - the padding affects the speeddial thumbs and not as expected the common tooltips! Remember: for the speeddial thumbs we are already able to set padding in the section [Thumbnail widget skin]...

Changed ini files:

Notes:

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Opera 9.5, 22.preview, 9807 [⊗]

22. February 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9789:

Deleted:

  1. Deleted old images: buttons/bookmarks_visited.png, buttons/folder_closed.png and buttons/pin.png.
  2. Deleted old images: contacts/special06.png and contacts/special07.png.
  3. Deleted old images: icons/new_page.png, icons/unite_globe.png and icons/dropup.png. I`m not sure about deleting the `dropup.png - this image is still in use and is lacking now, eg in the mail header-buttons or in the preferences header-buttons in order to display the ascending order...!
  4. Deleted old images in the folder selector_button/: deleted 18 images in this folder, except the image selector_selected.png.
  5. Deleted old skin-folders: startup_dialog/ with it`s content and toolbar_button/ with it`s content.
  6. Deleted old icon entry in the section [Images] of the skin.ini: Goto Widget Public Page = icons/unite_globe.png.

Changed ini files:

Notes:

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Opera 9.5, 21.preview, 9789 [⊗]

11. February 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9770:

New:

  1. New skin.ini sections: [Active element inside], [Active element inside inverse] and [Active element outside]. The section [Active element inside] defines the border images and the transparent center image for spatial navigation (eg highlighted links if you use Shift+Arrow keys in a webpage). Please note, that the additional section [Active element inside image] is not mandatory; delivers only the items for [Active element inside] via Clone = Active element inside image. The sections [Active element inside inverse] and [Active element outside] seems to define different images to `Active element inside` for some rarely used exceptions. I recommend to draw all these images in the intended blue - so the look and behaviour is with each skin the same. In addition I recommend to set Colorize = 0 for all the new sections - so the elements are not affected by Opera`s color schemes.
  2. New skin-folder: /a containing the images for the new sections mentioned above.
  3. New icon entry in the section [Images]: Goto Widget Public Page = icons/unite_globe.png which refers to the new icon-image icons/unite_globe.png (appears where?).

Changed ini files:

Notes:

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Opera 9.5, 20.preview, 9770 [⊗]

1. February 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9755:

Changed:

  1. On the [Tooltip skin], mentioned in the previous changelogs, the Text color= works now again as it should be.

Note:

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 19.preview, 9755 [⊗]

25. January 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9745:

Changed:

  1. The [Tooltip skin], mentioned in the changelog for 9745, accepts no longer a custom color for the text (Text color=); the tooltips text is always black. I hope that will be re-changed; because this way it is not possible to draw the tooltips with a dark background. In addition it is not possible to set Padding= or Margin= for tooltips - so at the moment the Tooltip skin is not fully skinnable.

Changed:

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 18.preview, 9745 [⊗]

18. January 2008 - Skin changes since the preview-9735:

New:

  1. Type = Boxstretch is a completely new image type for sections; together with Stretchborder=xy a new key entry. If a section have the Type = Boxstretch, only the Tile center is taken, and Stretchborder=xy (desired numeric value in pixels, default if no entry is 2) defines how much is taken from the original tile center in order to draw the outer parts - the center part is then drawed with the rest, stretched horizontally and vertically. The outer top/bottom parts are stretched horizontally only and the outer left/right parts are stretched vertically only. The outer corner parts are not stretched. Very practical for button areas with rounded corners (because the corner parts are excluded and the top / bottom / left and right parts are partly excluded from stretching by Stretchborder=. So we can have now larger base images which are nicer if they are shrunken by Boxstretch. Also suitable for toolbars or gradients. Example: 
    [Example skin]
Type = BoxStretch
Tile center = imagefolder/center.png
Stretchborder = 16

    image

    Margin= and Padding= seems to work as intended for the sections where Boxstretch/Stretchborder is in use. Also Border= and Border color= works as expected, and Blend= in .hover sections too. Width= and Height= are ignored eg in toolbar sections, but if I define a common button as Boxstretch section, eg [Go to homepage], then Width=/Height= works as expected - defines the desired final size. Finally I found a strange effect: if the original Tile center is about 70 x 70 px or smaller the stretched images are not blurred/interpolated, but if the original is larger than 70 x 70 the stretched result is blurred/interpolated. There is no blur at all for Type = Boxstretch if in opera:config-multimedia-`Interpolate images` is deactivated (the Type = Image is not affected by this setting).

  2. Here a shorter explanation: the type Boxstretch combines the advantages of the types Boxtile and Image - only 1 pic stretched like the type `Image` but with borders excluded from stretching like the type `Boxtile`:image
  3. The already existing [Tooltip skin] draws now the background for common tooltips too. Formerly this section (if defined) was the base for the tab thumbnails background (behind the [Thumbnail widget skin]) - now it is responsible for common tooltips too. Padding, Margin or Spacing have no effect in the [Tooltip skin] or the [Thumbnail widget skin] and: the `Thumbnail widget skin` is always drawed 1px smaller and on the top of the `Tooltip skin`! If you like to have different backgrounds for tooltips and thumbs, the only way to avoid the 1px-`bug` is to draw a 1px border in the [Tooltip skin] section with the same color as the thumbs background. Bear in mind that in the standard skin the Tooltip skin is defined as clone of the Edit skin.

Changed:

Corrected:

Notes:

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 17.preview, 9735 [⊗]

11. January 2008 - No skin changes since the preview-9721, but see the addendum

Addendum, 14. January 2008:

Note:

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Opera 9.5, 16.preview, 9721 [⊗]

4. January 2008 - No skin changes since the preview-9716

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 15.preview, 9716 [⊗]

21. December 2007 - No skin changes since the preview-9694

  1. ADDENDUM about the `dialog-expand` buttons: with the current preview 9716 we have 3 different dialog-expand buttons.

Changed ini files:

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Opera 9.5, 14.preview, 9694 [⊗]

14. December 2007 - Skin changes since the preview-9681:

  1. New section in skin.ini: [Account skin] containing currently only the Spacer = 5 entry. Appearing where?
  2. New account entries inside [Images] in skin.ini: Opera Account Enabled = account/enabled.png, Opera Account Disabled = account/disabled.png, Opera Account Failed = account/failed.png which are completely new images as well as the known animated Opera Account Busy = account/busy.gif
  3. New link entries inside [Images] in skin.ini: Link Failed = link/failed.png, Link Enabled = link/enabled.png and Link Disabled = link/disabled.png
  4. Deleted entries inside [Images] in skin.ini: Status Image Busy = status/busy.gif, Status Image Failed = status/failed.png, Status Image Succeeded = status/succeeded.png and Status Image Disabled = status/disabled.png
  5. New skin folder/images: account/ containing the new grey/green/red images disabled.png, enabled.png and failed.png as well as the well known animated busy.gif (formerly in /status) mentioned above. But where all the new things appearing?
  6. Changed skin folder/images: the old folder /status have changed the name now to link/ which contains the already existing black/green/red icons for the sync option - disabled.png and failed.png, as well as enabled.png (formerly succeeded.png) mentioned above

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Opera 9.5, 13.preview, 9681 [⊗]

30. November 2007 - Skin changes since the preview-9665:

  1. Corrected images: expand_button/center.png and center-left.png, center-right.png, bottom-center.png, top-center.png are no longer corrupted now; they are in use for the [Expand Hover Skin.hover] (in use where?)

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Opera 9.5, 12.preview, 9665 [⊗]

23. November 2007 - Skin changes since the preview-9656:

  1. New section: [Dropdown edit skin], appears as individual background for the Address-dropdown and the Zoom-dropdown. If this section not exists, you see there the [Dropdown skin]. Seems to be a forgotten thing; works at least since v8.0. So for all the draggable fields we have now:

Note: only [Dropdown edit skin] and [Dropdown search skin] are prepared to fit the `mini status toolbar` - all the others are a bit to high and there is no way to change that...

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Opera 9.5, 11.preview, 9656 [⊗]

16. November 2007 - Skin changes since the preview-9649:

  1. Deleted section: [Internal control skin] - I assume; it was never in use?
  2. New section: [Expand icon skin], only paddings there, appears where?
  3. New images: expand_button/open.png and expand_button/close.png which are in use as Tile center for [Disclosure triangle skin] and [Disclosure triangle skin.selected]. They are duplicates of the old icons/group_closed.png and icons/group_open.png. Appearing as button icons for the new expanded dialogs like the `Delete private data dialog` or `Mail authentication failed dialog` and so on.
  4. New entry in the section [Images]: Mail no body = icons/mail_nobody.png is designed to appear for downloaded mails without body, where exactly?.
  5. New image: icons/mail_nobody.png, mentioned above.

A résumé about the new expanded dialog buttons: Unknown is the sense of the [Expand icon skin], but with the [Disclosure triangle skin] you define the icon for the expander button, and with the [Expand skin] you define the things around the icon and text; padding, spacing, text color and so on (also a clone of the Push button skin is possible here, though unsightly oversized at the right due to the necessary space for translated button titles).

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Opera 9.5, 10.preview, 9649 [⊗]

9. November 2007 - Skin changes since the preview-9624:

  1. New section: [Internal control skin] containing only Padding=0 entries, appears where?
  2. New sections: [Expand skin], [Expand hover skin] and [Expand hover skin.hover] concerning the whole new `Detailed options` button in the `Delete private data` dialog. Seems to be unfinished: `...hover skin.hover...` (?) and the concerned Tile center, top, left, bottom and right-images are corrupted (tried also [Expand skin.hover]; works fine - you see the black corners around the arrow-icons and text - without the corrupted tiles).
  3. New sections: [Disclosure triangle skin] and [Disclosure triangle skin.selected]. In use are the already existing images icons/group_closed.png and icons/group_open.png, appearing as icons for the new `Detailed options` button in the `Delete private data` dialog.
  4. New entries in the section [Images]: Expand Enabled = expand_button/icon-enabled.png and Expand Disabled = expand_button/icon-disabled.png (note: Type=Image there). Seems to be a part of the unfinished [Expand skin]-thing...
  5. New skin folder: expand_button/ which contains all the boxtiles (partly corrupted) and the icons for the unfinished `Expand`-thing...

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Opera 9.5, 9.preview, 9624 [⊗]

2. November 2007 - No skin changes since the preview/beta1-9613

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Opera 9.5, 8.preview / beta1, 9613 [⊗]

25. October 2007 - Skin changes since the preview-9603:

  1. Changed images: status/disabled.png, status/failed.png and status/succeeded.png looks nicer now (more colors)

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Opera 9.5, 7. preview, 9603 [⊗]

18. October 2007 - Skin changes since the preview-9600:

  1. New images: icons/mail_status_connected.png, icons/mail_status_disconnected.png as well as the GIF-animation icons/mail_status_busy.gif (here in XP I cannot see where the images and animation appears?)
  2. Changed entries in the skin.ini inside the section [Images]: Mail Accounts Online = status/succeeded.png have changed to Mail Accounts Online = icons/mail_status_connected.png, Mail Accounts Offline = status/disabled.png have changed to Mail Accounts Offline = icons/mail_status_disconnected.png and the animation Mail Accounts Busy = status/busy.gif have changed to Mail Accounts Busy = icons/mail_status_busy.gif

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Opera 9.5, 6. preview, 9600 [⊗]

17. October 2007 - Skin changes since the preview-9594:

  1. Changed images: /status/disabled.png, /status/failed.png and /status/succeeded.png which are in use for the synchronisation option on the status bar

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Opera 9.5, 5. preview, 9594 [⊗]

12. October 2007 - No skin changes since the preview-9562:

Changes in ini- and language-files:

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Opera 9.5, 4. preview, 9562 [⊗]

28. September 2007 - No skin changes since the preview-9542:

And as usual:

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Opera 9.5, 3. preview, 9542 [⊗]

Skin changes since the preview-9523:

  1. New skin.ini section: [Notifier close button skin] which uses the already existing `pagebar_close_button/close.png`. So we are able to define different button images and settings for the new close button on the notifiers

And:

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Opera 9.5, 2. preview, 9523 [⊗]

Skin changes since the preview-9500:

  1. Opera now supports APNG 1.0 (animated png) on webpages and on skins too. Please activate `Tools - Quick preferences - Enable Gif/SVG Animation` in order to see APNG animations in webpages (demos: here and here). In order to create apng-files you can try the Gif Movie Gear 4.2.0 APNG - please follow there the `Getting started`-steps (thanks to Lars). The quality difference between gif and apng in a skin and on webpages is immense. And the advantage of apng: you see the first frame instead of the animation if the browser doesn`t supports apng - so a skin containing apng-animations works also with older Opera versions (displays the first frame there) and a webpage with apng-animations, visited with another/older browser, displays the first frame too. See also the community thread Skinning with APNG
  2. New: Pagebar Document Loading Icon = inside the section [Images]. Appears instead of the `Window Document Loading Icon` and appears only on the tabs - e.g. inside the windows panel or on the addressbar you see still the `Window Document Loading Icon` (thanks to Lars)
  3. No more disappearing numbers and borders on configured speeddial thumbs
  4. Note that the `Pagebar Close Button Skin` now appears on the notifiers at the right too
  5. Note also the `Stop` button appearing during check or send on the new popup at the bottom of the mail panel
  6. Since preview-9500, changed view for the [Header button skin]. In dialogs or in mail views too, if you see the horizontal headers together with scrollbars; the right part of the header, above the scrollbar is now separated (and disabled by Opera). That makes sense, but is not very nice. You can define own darker or lighter images for the [Header button skin.disabled] in order to reach the same brightness like for the `Header button skin` (thanks to Skinner* and Ayush)

And besides:

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Opera 9.5, 1. preview, 9500 [⊗]

Thanks to the team for the increased rendering speed! New are the Restore windows possibility inside the `Closed pages menu`, the Sync bookmarks option in the `File menu`, the Open with (FF, Ie?) entries in the `Document Popup Menu`, the History search - reachable with `opera:historysearch` or by typing in the searched into the addressbar, as well as the Drag to scroll switch in `opera:config#UserPrefs?|ScrollIsPan?`. But there are more things...

The Window cycler is renewed too; displays the current thumbnail only now (Opera:config - User prefs - `Use Thumbnails in Window Cycle` activated and then use CTRL+TAB in order to see the Window cycler).

NEW sections/entries:

  1. [High Assurance Security Button Skin] and [High Assurance Security Button Skin.hover], therefore you find four new images in the folder `trust_and_security_button/`; high_assurance_center.png, high_assurance_left.png, high_assurance_bottom.png and high_assurance_top.png. All these images have the color green - it is recommended to draw these parts in each skin with green color, including the entry `Colorize = 0` ! I suppose it`s for the `security-part` of the addressbar...
  2. [Edit Skin.mini] and [Edit Skin.disabled.mini], for the use on a small toolbar like the new statusbar (only I think) - displays 80% size of images and paddings (according to the official changelog)
  3. [Tooltip Skin], outer background for the thumbnails in the tabs and in the window cycle
  4. [Dropdown Skin.mini], for the use on a small toolbar like the new statusbar - displays 80% size of images and paddings (according to the official changelog)
  5. [Toolbar Button Skin.mini], [Toolbar Button Skin.hover.mini], [Toolbar Button Skin.selected.mini], [Toolbar Button Skin.pressed.mini] for the use on a small toolbar like the new statusbar - displays 80% size of images and paddings (according to the official changelog)
  6. [Cycler Page Button Skin] and [Cycler Page Button Skin.selected], background for the unselected resp. selected entries in the window cycler
  7. [Cycler Pages Skin], background behind the selected and unselected entries in the window cycler
  8. In [Images]: Close clicked page = icons/panel_collapse_small.png, already existing button image - for the use in the context menu of an unselected tab (for selected tabs it was already there)
  9. In [Images]: Mail All Messages = icons/mail_read.png, already existing button image
  10. In [Images]: Mail Active Contacts = contacts/contact_known.png, already existing button image
  11. In [Images]: Mail Active Threads = icons/thread.png, already existing button image
  12. In [Images]: Mail Labels = icons/label_important.png, already existing button image
  13. In [Images]: Mail Attachments = icons/mail_attachment.png, already existing button image
  14. In [Images]: Mail Mailing Lists = contacts/mailing_list.png, already existing button image
  15. In [Images]: Mail Accounts = icons/mail_unread.png, already existing button image
  16. In [Images]: Mail Accounts Online = status/succeeded.png, new image - where? (used in the status bar too)
  17. In [Images]: Mail Accounts Offline = status/disabled.png, new image - where? (used in the status bar too)
  18. In [Images]: Mail Accounts Busy = status/busy.gif - where? (new folder `/status` and new animation, which is a copy of speeddial/reload.gif)
  19. In [Images]: Mail Newsgroups = icons/news_group.png, already existing button image
  20. In [Images]: Mail Newsfeeds = buttons/feed.png, already existing button image
  21. In [Images]: Mail Searches = icons/search.png, already existing button image
  22. In [Images]: DOM Console = buttons/dom_console.png, new image - where?
  23. In [Images]: Status Image Busy = status/busy.gif - new folder `/status` and new animation, which is a copy of speeddial/reload.gif
  24. In [Images]: Status Image Failed = status/failed.png - new folder `/status` and new image, new image - visible in the status bar for the new sync bookmarks option
  25. In [Images]: Status Image Succeeded = status/succeeded.png - new folder `/status` and new image, new image - visible in the status bar for the new sync bookmarks option
  26. In [Images]: Status Image Disabled = status/disabled.png - new folder `/status` and new image, new image - visible in the status bar for the new sync bookmarks option

CHANGED sections/entries:

  1. [Cycler Button Skin], changed inner background for the thumbnails in the window cycler
  2. [Cycler Window Skin], changed background for the whole window cycler; around the thumbnails and the entries
  3. In [Browser Skin] the entry `Padding Right = 1` is changed to Padding Right = 1; so the pixel at the right of the common scrollbar is now used in the standard skin too...
  4. In [Speed Dial Widget Skin] the entry `Border Color = #bec2cb` (blue-grey) is changed to Border Color = #a0a0a0 (colorless-grey)
  5. In [Images] the entry `Thumbnail Busy Image = speeddial/busy_anim.gif` have changed the path to Thumbnail Busy Image = progress/busy_anim.gif, so the image have changed it`s place only
  6. In [Images]: the entry Widget = buttons/widget.png have moved to the section [Boxes]

DELETED sections/entries:

  1. [Start Popup Skin] and [Startbar Skin] are deleted, at the moment the Start bar takes it`s images from the [Edit skin]
  2. [Cycler Window Skin], [Cycler Skin], [Cycler Button Skin] are deleted respectively replaced by the [Cycler...] sections mentioned above
  3. In [Options]: Large Images = 0 is deleted - but there are no large images in the standard skin - without this entry the option `Large images` in Appearance - Toolbars is always visible... (and: no you cannot enlarge the button images on the new status bar this way - only if the skin contains large button images you see them there - with 80% too)
  4. In [Images]: First Time Setup Dialog = dialog_images/opera.png is deleted

More:

And more:

About the `Mini buttons`:

[Toolbar button skin.mini]

for small and large button images, but also separate [Toolbar button skin.large.mini] possible

[Edit skin.mini]

for all search fields

[Dropdown skin.mini]

for dropdown search fields

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Opera 9.27, final version, 8841 [⊗]

3. April 2008 - No skin changes since the final-8835. The summary from 9.1 to 9.2 is still valid.

- Your current version-number you find in Help - About Opera
- 9.27-8841 Download: Download all platforms
- Changelog: Changelogs all platforms

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Opera 9.26, final version, 8835 [⊗]

20. February 2008 - No skin changes since the preview-8833. The summary from 9.1 to 9.2 is still valid.

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Opera 9.26, 1. preview, 8833 [⊗]

14. February 2008 - No skin changes since the final 9.25-8827. The summary from 9.1 to 9.2 is still valid.

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Opera 9.25, final version, 8827 [⊗]

19. December 2007 - No skin changes since the final 9.24-8816. The summary from 9.1 to 9.2 is still valid.

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Opera 9.24, final version, 8816 [⊗]

17. October 2007 - No skin changes since the final 9.23-8808. The summary from 9.1 to 9.2 is still valid.

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Opera 9.23, final version, 8808 [⊗]

15. August 2007 - No skin changes since the preview-8808. It seems to be the same build. The summary from 9.1 to 9.2 is still valid.

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Opera 9.23, 2. preview, 8808 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview-8805

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Opera 9.23, 1. preview, 8805 [⊗]

No skin changes since the final-8801

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Opera 9.22, final version, 8801 [⊗]

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Opera 9.22, 2. preview, 8800 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview-8796

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Opera 9.22, 1. preview, 8796 [⊗]

No skin changes since the final-8776:

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Opera 9.21, final version, 8776 [⊗]

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Opera 9.21, 1. preview, 8776 [⊗]

Skin changes since the final-8771:

  1. Now you find the entry Colorize = 0 in the sections [Security button skin], [Security button skin.hover] and [Low security button skin.hover], so they cannot change with a color scheme.

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Summary of changes from Opera 9.1 to 9.2 final[⊗]

A summary of skin changes from Opera 9.1 to Opera 9.2 final-8771 including the individual preview/beta skin changelogs. Relevant notes `for tweakers` are mentioned too.

Changed are the `Tab thumbnails`, new is the `Speed dial tab` and new is also the (unfinished) `Gif animation support`

New skin.ini sections:

  1. New [Thumbnail Widget Skin] is the background around the `Tab thumbnails`; `Text color=` here changes the page title and the address above and below the thumbnail; Base: Tooltip skin > Edit skin > Black (no base). If in the `Tooltip skin` section a Border= is defined, you see the border always also in the `Thumbnail widget skin` (outside and in addition if the `Thumbnail widget skin` includes a border too). The border you see if no `Tooltip skin` is defined comes from the `Edit skin`
  2. New [Thumbnail Image Skin] is in use on the top of the `Tab thumbnails`; transparent on the thumbnail itselfs and as small border around the thumbnail; you cannot change the transparency, except with a transparent image; Base: Thumbnail widget skin; cloned for the `Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin`
  3. New [Thumbnail Image Skin.hover]; not found, but cloned for the `Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin.hover`
  4. New [Thumbnail Image Skin.disabled]; not found
  5. New [Thumbnail Title Button Skin]; not found
  6. New [Speed Dial Widget Skin] is the entire background for the Speeddial tab; `Text color=` here changes in general the titles below the thumbs and the titles for `What is...` and `Hide Speed...`, as well as all the text in the speeddial tooltip; if no text color is defined the colors coming from the `Window skin` in general and individual from the `Toolbar button skin` for `What is...` and `Speed...` (see also `Help tooltip skin`); Base: Black (no base)
  7. New [Speed Dial Search Widget Skin] is the area around the searchfield at the top of the Speed dial tab; in use is speeddial/search-top.png for Tile top= and Tile bottom=; the background have the same width as the 3 thumbs; padding top/bottom works well, but padding left/right have no effect; Base: Speed Dial Widget Skin (I`m sure you know that you can change or disable the Speeddial search in Tools - Preferences - Search - Edit - Details)
  8. New [Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin] is the background around the unused thumbs; `Text color=` inside this section changes the page title below the thumbs; Base: Speed dial widget skin
  9. New [Speed dial thumbnail widget skin.selected] is the background around the used thumbs and if selected for Edit/Customize; `Text color=` inside this section have no effect (is taken from `Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin` > `Speed Dial Widget Skin`); Base: Speed dial widget skin
  10. New [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin] is the background for the unused thumbs as well as with transparency on the top of the used thumbs and as small border there; you cannot change the transparency, except with a transparent image; Base: Speed dial thumbnail widget skin / the thumbs; clone of the `Thumbnail Image Skin`
  11. New [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin.hover] is the background for the unused thumbs if hover, as well as with transparency as small border around the used thumbs if hover (on the top of a hovered thumb it seems to be full transparent); Base: `Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin` / the thumbs; clone of the `Thumbnail Image Skin.hover`
  12. New [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin.pressed] works too, but makes not a big sense
  13. New [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin.disabled]; not found
  14. New [Speed Dial Thumbnail Title Button Skin]; not found
  15. New [Speed Dial Thumbnail Close Button Skin] defines the close button on the top right of each Speed dial thumbnail and on the speeddial configure dialog; in use as child is Speeddial Close = speeddial/speeddial-close.png from the section [Boxes]; with to much paddings left/right the image disappears, with to much paddings top/bottom the thumbs looks distorted...
  16. New [Speed Dial Thumbnail Close Button Skin.hover] is the above close button if hover; in use as child is Speeddial Close Hover = speeddial/speeddial-close-hover.png from the section [Boxes]
  17. New [Speed Dial Configuration Dialog Skin]; outer background for the Speed dial configure dialog (appearing if you rightclick a thumb or click on an empty `thumb`), including the shadow at the left and bottom of the dialog; Base: nothing - full transparent
  18. New [Speed Dial Configuration Dialog No Alpha Skin]; the same as above, but "for systems that don't support alpha transparent windows" (no shadow at the left and bottom here); Base: nothing - full transparent (I think)
  19. New [Speed Dial Configuration Dialog Page Skin]; inner background for the Speed dial configure dialog; Base: Speed Dial Configuration Dialog Skin > nothing
  20. New [Speed Dial Configuration Dialog Button Border Skin] is the area around the push buttons in the Speed dial configure dialog; paddings working well, but color or images here have no effect; use Padding top= to move down/up the buttons; Base: Speed Dial Configuration Dialog Skin > nothing
  21. New [Help Tooltip Skin] is the background for the Help tooltip (click `What is Speed Dial`); `Text color=` here changes the text color, as well as the title color for the `More`-link and if not defined, the colors coming from the `Speed Dial Widget Skin` (text) and from the `Link button skin` (more-link); Base: nothing - full transparent
  22. New [Help Tooltip Close Button Skin] is for the `Close` button on the speeddial tooltip; in use is the same button as for the thumbs: Speeddial Close = speeddial/speeddial-close.png in [Boxes] as child
  23. New [Help Tooltip Close Button Skin.hover] is for the same button as above if hover; in use is here the Speeddial Close Hover = speeddial/speeddial-close-hover.png in [Boxes] as child
  24. New in the section [Boxes] is the Speeddial Close = speeddial/speeddial-close.png used as child for the `Speed Dial Thumbnail Close Button Skin` and `Help Tooltip Close Button Skin`
  25. New in the section [Boxes] is the Speeddial Close Hover = speeddial/speeddial-close-hover.png used as child for `Speed Dial Thumbnail Close Button Skin.hover` and `Help Tooltip Close Button Skin.hover`
  26. New in the section [Images] is Open pages = buttons/windows.png which uses the already existing windows.png inside the thumbs configuration
  27. New in the section [Images] is Opera Logo = icons/opera.png which uses the already existing opera.png inside the thumbs configuration
  28. New in the section [Images] is the animated Thumbnail Busy Image = speeddial/busy_anim.gif, used centered during loading a thumbnail
  29. New in the section [Images] is also the animated Thumbnail Reload Image = speeddial/reload.gif: appears on the left upper corner only during the thumbs-reload instead of the thumb number (also if `Reload every...` is set). Margins, defined as comma-separated parameters inside this entry, have no effect, so you must insert transparent space inside the animation if necessary. Colorizing enabled as parameter, can have an effect; depending on the used colors and on the color scheme
  30. New is also the Search button at the left of the Speed dial search field; in use is there the [Push button skin]

More:

Gif animations:

Summary for tweakers:
  1. Addition in the menu.ini about the Reload every-menu in [Speed dial thumbnail popup menu] and note also the `,-2` behind each item there, means: concerns the clicked thumb (with `,1` / `,2` / `,3` ... the item concerns the thumb 1 / 2 / 3 ...)
  2. New option in Opera:config - User Prefs: Speed Dial State = 0/1/2/3 (0 is folded/like Hide speed dial, 1 is shown, 2 is Configure.../Hide.../What... disabled, 3 is completely disabled
  3. With the option in Opera:config - User Prefs: Speeddial Search Type= you can change the speeddial search engine (or more comfortable in: Tools - Preferences - Search - Edit - Details)
  4. With the command: Go to speed dial,x you can reach one of the 9 `speeded things`; where x is a number from 1 to 9 (keyboard.ini, menu.ini, mouse.ini and toolbar.ini); Inside the toolbar.ini, you can use the first parameter in order to not display the shortcut in tooltips or on the statusbar, so Go to speed dial,"-1",2 means: Go to the speed dial 2 without displaying the shortcut
  5. For the Speed dial tab itselfs you need no separate command: New page does it in each case; but you can use also Show speed dial as command
  6. Some changes/additions in the english.lng, keyboard.ini, and menu.ini; for the most part about speed dial but also mentioning the developer tools (as well as a lot of corrections and above all the changed precondition Platform Windows-Mac-MCE instead of Platform Windows-Mac-QNX in the menu.ini)
  7. Changed entry for `Mark as read` (now `Mark as read | Mark as unread`) in [Customize toolbar mail.content] inside the toolbar.ini
  8. Note also the deleted search fields in [Start toolbar.content] inside the toolbar.ini
  9. In the keyboard.ini the entry F6 = Set widget mode, 1 | Set widget mode, 0 is deleted.

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Opera 9.2, final version, 8771 [⊗]

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Opera 9.2, 9. preview, 8769 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview-8767 so far, and a about animated gifs, see the community-thread Skinning with animated images...

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Opera 9.2, 8. preview, 8767 [⊗]

Skin changes since the beta1-8762:

About animated gifs see the community-thread Skinning with animated images...

Some small changes:

  1. The [Speed dial thumbnail widget skin.disabled] is gone and seems no longer to work, but new is the [Speed dial thumbnail widget skin.selected] for behind/around the thumb if selected for Edit/Customize and if containing a thumb.
  2. In the section [Speed dial configuration dialog no alpha skin] the Corner topleft = speeddial/overlay_dialog_top-left_noalpha.png is new and also the file speeddial/overlay_dialog_top-left_noalpha.png is new.
  3. In the section [Speed dial thumbnail widget skin] the Tile center = speeddial/dark-center.png is gone and the file speeddial/dark-center.png is deleted.
  4. The file speeddial/center.png is deleted (previously used in the `Speed dial thumbnail widget skin.disabled`).

More:

Addendum 2. April 2007:

For tweakers:

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Opera 9.2, 1. beta, 8762 [⊗]

No skin changes so far since the preview-8762; seems to be the same build.

About the gif animation support, see: Skinning with animated images...

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Opera 9.2, 7. preview, 8762 [⊗]

No skin changes so far since the preview-8758, but about changed gif animation support, see: Skinning with animated images...

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Opera 9.2, 6. preview, 8758 [⊗]

Skin changes since the preview-8746:

About animated gifs see the community-thread Skinning with animated images...

Small changes:

  1. In the section [Speed dial widget skin] we can use now also the entry Text color= (for `What is speed dial / Hide speed dial / Show speed dial`). If Text color= is not set, the text color from the [Toolbar button skin] is used here, including .hover and paddings and so on.
  2. In the section [Help tooltip skin] the entry Text color= changes the text and now also the color of the `More...`- link. If Text color= is not set here, the text color from the [Link button skin] is in use for the link, including .hover and paddings and so on, but the text color from [Window skin] is in use for the big text part.
  3. [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin.pressed] works (since 8732), but makes not a big sense.
  4. The Thumbnails appears now also in the `Window panel` if Show Tooltips is enabled in Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Browsing. In use is therefore the [Thumbnail widget skin] > Tooltip skin > Edit skin > Black (no base). At the moment there seems to be no possibility to enable/disable this thumbnails separately...

More:

Still in progress (I hope):

For tweakers:

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Opera 9.2, 5. preview, 8746 [⊗]

Skin changes since the preview-8732:

Note the community-thread Skinning with animated images...

There is some progress introducing the Speed Dial, but also a lot of work.

  1. The Startbar is back: [Startbar Skin] and [Start Popup Skin] (with the same content as it was in 9.2-8713). Hold in mind, that the corresponding sections inside the toolbar.ini have to be back too: [Start Toolbar.alignment] and [Start Toolbar.content]. The startbar overlaps the Speed dial search, not so nice, but Padding top = 15 or so inside the section [Speed Dial Widget Skin] helps. My wish is: the Speed dial search-part works as fully customizable `Startbar` including a button to enable/disable the thumbs-part...
  2. Thumbnail Reload Image = speeddial/reload.gif inside the section [Images]: the new additional animated gif appears on the left upper corner only during the thumbs-reload instead of the thumb number (but appears not if `Reload every...` is set). Margins, defined as comma-separated parameters inside this entry, have no effect, so you must insert transparent space inside the animation if necessary. Colorizing enabled as parameter, can have an effect; depending on the used colors and on the color scheme.
  3. Opera Logo = icons/opera.png inside the section [Images]: the already existing opera.png appears inside the thumbs configuration (Opera sites). The entry and the image for Myopera Logo image = speeddial\myopera-logo.png are deleted now.
  4. [Help Tooltip Close Button Skin] and [Help tooltip Close Button Skin.hover] are for the `Close` button on the new tooltip (appearing if you click What is Speed dial). In use as childs are the already existing Speeddial Close = speeddial/speeddial-close.png and Speeddial Close Hover = speeddial/speeddial-close-hover.png in [Images].
  5. [Help Tooltip Skin] is the background for the Help tooltip.
  6. New is also the Search button at the left of the search field. In use is there the [Push button skin].
  7. The [Thumbnail Image Skin] appears on the unhoovered thumbnail and is transparent there by default; you cannot change the transparency directly. It appears also on the unhoovered empty thumbnail, but there without transparency. If you define it as Type=Boxtile you can have tiles with it`s own transparency appearing on the unhoovered empty thumbs (and added to the default transparency on unhoovered thumb images).
  8. The [Thumbnail Image Skin.hover] works now correct (in 8732 it was not really customizable). Also Blend= works fine here for the tiles if Type=Boxtile (generally: Blend= works not for Color= and Border color=)

Here the base you see if a section have no image or color defined:

And:

For tweakers:

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Opera 9.2, 4. preview, 8732 [⊗]

Skin changes since the preview-8713:

Please note the community-thread Skinning with animated images...

The new Speed Dial-thing you see if you open a new empty tab; it seems to replace the old `Startbar`. If you click on `Hide Speed Dial`, the thing is hidden (Ctrl+1,2,3... still works); click on `Show Speed dial` on the right lower corner of an empty tab in order to reactivate the thing (or set `folded=0` in [prefs] inside the speeddial.ini).

Also the normal `Thumbnails on the tabs` are changed now, but hold in mind that the old [Tooltip Skin] have to be still there for Opera versions from 9.0 to 9.2-8713 preview.

The section [Startbar skin] is deleted (but hold in mind here too: still in use for all Opera versions from 7.6 to 9.2-8713 preview). Besides; the section [Start popup skin], related to the Startbar skin, is still there (but seems not to be in use for the new Speed dial thing).

  1. In the section [Boxes] you find two new entries: Speeddial Close = speeddial/speeddial-close.png and Speeddial Close Hover = speeddial/speeddial-close-hover.png. These images are in use for the Close-button at the top-right corner on each `Speeddial image` (see below the `Speed Dial Thumbnail Close Button Skin`).
  2. New in the section [Images] are the animated Thumbnail Busy Image = speeddial\busy_anim.gif used during loading a Speed dial thumbnail (you can use each animated gif), the Open pages = buttons/windows.png which uses the already existing windows.png inside the Speed dial configuration (thanks to Serafins), as well as the Myopera Logo image = speeddial\myopera-logo.png (used where?)
  3. [Speed Dial Widget Skin] is the entire background for the Speeddial tab
  4. [Thumbnail Image Skin] is in use on the `normal `Tab thumbnails`; there only as small border around the thumbnail. The [Thumbnail Image Skin.hover] and [Thumbnail Image Skin.disabled] seems not to be in use for the Tab thumbnails, but [Thumbnail Image Skin] and [Thumbnail Image Skin.hover] works as clones for the `Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin` and `Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin.hover` (and the [Thumbnail Image Skin.disabled] I have not yet seen).
  5. [Thumbnail Widget Skin] is the background around the normal `Tab thumbnails`. `Text color=` here changes the page title and the address above and below the thumbnail.
  6. [Thumbnail Title Button Skin]; not found
  7. [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin] and [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin.hover] represents the colors you see on the top of the Speeddial thumbnails unhovered and hovered (White in different shades with the Standard skin). In the standard skin they are clones of the `Thumbnail Image Skin` and `Thumbnail Image Skin.hover`. The [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin.disabled] I have not yet seen.
  8. [Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin] and [Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin.disabled] are for the background around the Speed dial thumbnails; .disabled you see if there is no thumbnail. `Text color=` inside the section [Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin] changes the page title below the thumbnail.
  9. [Speed Dial Thumbnail Title Button Skin]; not found
  10. [Speed Dial Thumbnail Close Button Skin] and [Speed Dial Thumbnail Close Button Skin.hover]; the close button on the top right of each Speed dial thumbnail; in use as childs are Close = speeddial/speeddial-close.png and Speeddial Close Hover = speeddial/speeddial-close-hover.png from the section [Boxes].
  11. [Speed Dial Configuration Dialog Skin]; outer background for the Speed dial configure dialog (rightclick a thumbnail or click on an empty `thumbnail`). Seems to include the area around the Push buttons inside this dialog. Includes also the shadow at the left and bottom of the dialog.
  12. [Speed Dial Configuration Dialog No Alpha Skin]; seems to be the same as the `Speed Dial Configuration Dialog Skin` above, but "for systems that don't support alpha transparent windows" (no shadow at the left and bottom here).
  13. [Speed Dial Configuration Dialog Page Skin]; inner background for the Speed dial configure dialog (around the fields there).
  14. [Speed Dial Configuration Dialog Button Border Skin] is the area around the push buttons in the Speed dial configure dialog (paddings working well, but color or images here have no effect).
  15. [Speed Dial Search Widget Skin] is the area around the searchfield at the top of the Speed dial tab; in use is Tile Top = speeddial/search-top.png and Tile Bottom = speeddial/search-top.png (two times the same image as line), but the background concerns the whole area from the left to the right of the tab.
  16. All the new images you find in the new skin-folder speeddial.

Also the Window cycle seems to be affected at the moment (Opera:config - User prefs - `Use Thumbnails in Window Cycle` activated and then use ALT+Pageup / Pagedown in order to see the Window cycler). Here the background around the thumbnails is much larger than before (and it is still not clear why we cannot customize this part)

A little bit unfinished all the things, but on a good way...

For tweakers:

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Opera 9.2, 3. preview, 8713 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview-8701

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Opera 9.12, 2. preview, 8701 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview-8692

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Opera 9.1x, 1. preview, 8692 [⊗]

No skin changes since the final-8679

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Summary of changes from Opera 9 to 9.1 final[⊗]

A summary of skin changes from Opera 9 to Opera 9.1 final-8679 including the individual preview skin changelogs. Relevant notes `for tweakers` are mentioned too. All the skin changes are added also to the AdvancedSkinGuide.

New or changed skin.ini sections:

  1. Since 8629 see also 8643 : new [Untrusted Site Security Button Skin] and [Untrusted Site Security Button Skin.hover], this new sections describes the background in the addressbar at the right behind the fraud protection icon, appears with the !-icon and means: attention!. Please use `Colorize=0`, so this important security item is displayed always in the same color! It's quasi standard to draw this thing in red, according to the [Security button skin] in yellow and the [Low security button skin] in grey! For the fraud protection icon `i` and `?` the section [Low security button skin] is in use as background.
  2. Since 8629 see also 8653 : new Trust Information=buttons/trust_info.png, Trust Unknown=buttons/trust_unknown.png and Trust Fraud=buttons/trust_fraud.png in the section [Images]. The images appears always visible inside the addressbar at the right as well as in the fraud protection dialog (increased there). Please use i, ? and ! as icons for these important fraud protection indicators. Suggestion: i=green, ?=yellow and !=red.
  3. Since 8629 see also 8649 : new Dialog Stop=dialog_images/stop.png in the section [Images]. This image exists since Opera 9.1-8629. During the preview phase it was for a short time in use for the fraud protection warning (called from the warning.css). Now there the old Dialog Warning-image is called, but perhaps the Dialog Stop-image is still in use in other circumstances.
  4. Since 8643 : changed [Security button skin] and [Low security button skin], now the backgrounds are drawed as 9-part boxtiles and all related images are stored in the skinfolder .../trust_and_security_button (together with the image parts for the [Untrusted Site Security Button Skin] mentioned above).
  5. Since 8653 : changed Padding right = 2 (before 8) in the section [Low Security Button Skin] (as well as in [Untrusted Site Security Button Skin]) and theire clones inside the skin.ini - so the space between the icons and the background border inside the addressbar is smaller now.


Summary for tweakers:
  1. IMPORTANT since Opera 9: all buttons with a action after the `+`sign (a second action for `hold the button` but not a menu/hidden menu) works only properly if you have activated the `Special effects` in Tools - Appearance - Skin!
  2. Changes in the keyboard.ini concerning the platform preconditions.
  3. Changes in the menu.ini and several new entries concerning the fraud protection in the language file.
  4. The new commands `Trust fraud`, `Trust information` or `Trust unknown` allows a button outside the addressfield which displays the new Fraud protection dialog for the current page - unfortunately it seems not to be possible to change the button icons for unknown, information/trusted or fraud (the dialog changes well).
  5. Concerning the command `Show security information`: since the introduction of the fraud protection extension, this command displays the new certificate/fraud protection dialog (also with the old Security button).
  6. An old bug in the toolbar.ini seems to be corrected now: in the section [Customize Toolbar Mail.content] the old not existing language-number 22305 is now corrected to 26551 ("Add contact"). And the Reload-button in [Source View Toolbar.content] is now numbered with 1094079060 ("Apply changes") instead of the old 51212 ("Reload from cache").
  7. Note the new section [Widgets widget] in the standard toolbar.ini.
  8. Concerning Identify as...
829237433="Identify as MSIE %s" 
-1631356716="Identify as Mozilla %s" 
-1066571026="Identify as Mozilla 5.0" 
-1074742471="Identify as Mozilla 4.78" 
-1066571028="Identify as Mozilla 3.0" 
-862853756="Identify as MSIE 6.0"

590106237="Identify as Firefox" 
344289886="Identify as Internet Explorer"

70478="Identify as Mozilla"
70479="Identify as Internet Explorer"

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Opera 9.1, final version, 8679 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview 9.1-8679 (it is the same build).

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Opera 9.1, 9. preview, 8679 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview 9.1-8678

For tweakers:

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Opera 9.1, 8. preview, 8678 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview 9.1-8670

For tweakers:

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Opera 9.1, 7. preview, 8670 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview 9.1-8666

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Opera 9.1, 6. preview, 8666 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview 9.1-8660

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Opera 9.1, 5. preview, 8660 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview 9.1-8653

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Opera 9.1, 4. preview, 8653 [⊗]

Skin changes since the preview 9.1-8649:

  1. Two fraud protection images changed: /buttons/trust_info.png and /buttons/trust_unknown.png are now 22x22px (before 16x16), but the /buttons/trust_fraud.png is still 16x16px. So the `i` and `?` is now a little bit larger.
  2. Padding right = 2 (before 8) in the sections [Low Security Button Skin] and [Untrusted Site Security Button Skin] and theire clones inside the skin.ini - so the space between the icons and the background border inside the addressbar is smaller now.

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Opera 9.1, 3. preview, 8649 [⊗]

No skin changes since the preview 9.1-8643, there are also no changes in other ini files or in the language file.

  1. No skin change, but; now the image Dialog Warning=dialog_images/warning.png appears in the generated Fraud warning instead of the previously used Dialog Stop=dialog_images/stop.png (called from the warning.css, unfortunately with a fixed size there). But the image dialog_images/stop.png is still there and perhaps in use in other circumstances.

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Opera 9.1, 2. preview, 8643 [⊗]

Skin changes since the preview 9.1/9.03-8629:

  1. Reorganized Skin.ini-sections: [Security button skin], [Low security button skin], [Untrusted site security button skin] and the .hover-sections therefor. Now all these sections have the Type = Boxtile and all the concerned image parts are saved in the new skin folder /trust_and_security_button, but there are no changes in the colors.
  2. The icons for Fraud protection are redesigned now; /buttons/trust_fraud.png is a white `!`, /buttons/trust_info.png is a dark `i` and /buttons/trust_unknown.png is a dark `?`.

For tweakers: 

829237433="Identify as MSIE %s" 
-1631356716="Identify as Mozilla %s" 
-1066571026="Identify as Mozilla 5.0" 
-1074742471="Identify as Mozilla 4.78" 
-1066571028="Identify as Mozilla 3.0" 
-862853756="Identify as MSIE 6.0"

590106237="Identify as Firefox" 
344289886="Identify as Internet Explorer"

70478="Identify as Mozilla"
70479="Identify as Internet Explorer"

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Opera 9.1/9.03, 1. preview, 8629 [⊗]

Skin changes since the final version 9.02-8585:

  1. New Skin.ini-sections: [Untrusted Site Security Button Skin] as well as [Untrusted Site Security Button Skin.hover]
    • The background color #bb0000 there is dark signal-red and #dd0000 is a brighter red as border color (normal and hover with the same colors...). Please take red as basic color for this important background. Please insert also the entry `Colorize = 0` into both sections, so the red color is always recognizable as `alert-color` (grey=info/unknown, red=fraud). CORRECTION - please note: Colorize= is ineffective for colors defined trough Color=, so you have to define the thing like the example below (untrust.png is a 1x1px image in red #bb0000):
[Untrusted Site Security Button Skin]
Type = Boxtile
Tile center = window/untrust.png
Border = 1
Border Color = #dd0000
Text Color = #000000
Colorize = 0
  1. New Skin.ini-entries inside the section [Images]: Dialog Stop = dialog_images/stop.png, Trust Information = buttons/trust_info.png, Trust Unknown = buttons/trust_unknown.png and Trust Fraud = buttons/trust_fraud.png
    • All the things concerns the new fraud-protection feature: the stop.png seems to appear as warning image in fraud protection message box. The images trust_info.png, trust_unknown.png and trust-fraud.png appears currently always visible inside the addressbar at the right, with the [Untrusted Site Security Button Skin] (red, fraud) or [Low Security Button Skin] (grey, trusted/unknown) as background, as well as in the fraud protection dialog.
    • Please note also the new option `Enable Fraud Protection` in Tools-Preferences-Advanced-Security as well as the new Fraud protection dialog appearing if you click the new colorized right part of the addressbar.

For tweakers:

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Opera 9.02, final version, 8585 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly preview/rc2 8585.

  1. The Summary from 8 to 9 is still valid.

For tweakers:

IMPORTANT since Opera 9: all buttons with a function after the `+`sign (a second function for `hold the button` but not a menu/hidden menu) works only properly if you have activated the `Special effects` in Tools - Appearance - Skin (thanks to Goop and Stoen)! See also the AdvancedToolbarINIGuide

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9.02, 3. weekly prev./release candidate 2, 8585 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly prev./rc1 8584

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9.02, 2. weekly prev./release candidate 1, 8584 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly preview 8573

For tweakers:

Note again some changes in the keyboard.ini concerning the platform preconditions.

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9.02, 1. weekly preview, 8573 [⊗]

No skin changes since the final version 8552

For tweakers:

Note the changes in the keyboard.ini concerning the platform preconditions.

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Opera 9.01, final version, 8552 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly preview 8552.

  1. The Summary from 8 to 9 is still valid.

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9.01, 7. weekly preview, 8552 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly preview 8543

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9.01, 6. weekly preview, 8543 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly preview 8542

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9.01, 5. weekly preview, 8542 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly preview 8533

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9.01, 4. weekly preview, 8533 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly preview 8518

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9.01, 3. weekly preview, 8518 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly preview 8509

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9.01, 2. weekly preview, 8509 [⊗]

No skin changes since the weekly preview 8505

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9.01, 1. weekly preview, 8505 [⊗]

No skin changes since the final version 9-8501

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Summary of changes from Opera 8 to 9 final[⊗]

A summary of all the skin changes from Opera 8 to Opera 9 final-8501 including all individual preview/beta changelogs. Please note: temporarily used but skipped items are not mentioned here and some unclear or questionable things you find in `Unfinished items`. But relevant notes `for tweakers` are mentioned. All the skin changes are added also to the AdvancedSkinGuide.

New or changed skin.ini sections:

  1. Since 8031 : new [Pagebar locked button skin], this new section describes the image that appears at the right of a pagebar tab if the tab is locked; trough the rightclick menu. The image is originally saved in the skin-zipfolder buttons/lock_page.png.
    • In the original it`s a locked padlock. Please use the same image size as for the [Pagebar close button skin] and if you are using also the same paddings, margins and so on, you have no problems.
    • Unfortunately Opera dim`s the image, so you are forced to take image colors with a high contrast to the tab. If the tabs for normal/selected differs to much, you can use in addition [Pagebar locked button skin.selected] with a different image.
  2. Since 8031 : No longer supported, individual settings .left, .bottom and .right for the [Pagebar head skin] and [Pagebar tail skin]
  3. Since 8212 : new [Tooltip skin], describes the background for the thumbnails in the tabs, no padding=/margin= possible, but color=, text color=, border=, border color= and `9tile-images` works well for the whole pop-up. The tooltips which appears with `Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Browsing - Show tooltips ON` you cannot change this way; the color there is taken from the operating system (in Win it is the color for `Quickinfo`, in Unix you must be able to change the color via Opera:config).
    • Someone asked about a border around the thumnail image only: in case you defined a color for the pop-up, you can add an image with the additional entries `Type=Boxtile` and `Corner topleft=xy.png`. The image must have the size 138x104px, please let 2px above and 2px at the left and then draw a 1px border to the right lower corner, save only the border as alpha channel. See also the post at myOpera
  4. Since 8212 : new [Low Security Button Skin] and [Low Security Button Skin.hover], this new section describes the background which appears at the right in the addressbar; greyed for sites using an encrypted connection, but have a low security rating.
    • Similar to the existing [Security Button Skin] but grey.
    • In order to follow non-troppo`s earlier discussed rule for the Security Button Skin I suggest here: grey with black textcolor, and please set Colorize=0 for this section!
  5. Since 8212 : new [Content Block Toolbar Skin], this section describes the background for the Content-block toolbar, which appears inside the page if you choose `Block content` in the rightclick menu of a page (allows simply to click page elements you wish to block in future).
    • No longer supported: sections for .left, .bottom and .right separately (and it seems not to be possible to customize this toolbar directly; no rightclick - customize).
    • If the section exists but no image and no color is defined, the background will be taken from the [Window skin].
  6. Since 8212 : new [Cycler Window Skin], this section describes the background for the window appearing if you press ALT+Pagedown or ALT+Pageup in order to cycle your tabs. Besides it is also the whole background for the same but enlarged window, if in Opera:config - User prefs - `Use Thumbnails in Window Cycle` is ON.
  7. Since 8212 : new [Cycler Skin], this section describes the background only for the middle part of the enlarged cycler window including the part behind the thumbnails at the right. So you are able to set a main background (Cycler Window Skin) and a possibly transparent background for the middle part (Cycler Skin).
  8. Since 8212 : new [Cycler Button Skin], I suppose this section is for the thumbnails in the case described above, but there is no effect. See also below in `Unfinished items`.

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New or changed button entries and button images:

  1. Since 8031 : new .../buttons/lock_page.png, this image is in use for the [Pagebar locked button skin].
  2. Since 8212 : new Add widget = buttons/new_page.png in the section [Images], this button image appears in the widgets panel toolbar.
    • The existing image for `New page` is used.
  3. Since 8212 : new Remove widget = buttons/delete.png in the section [Images], this button image appears in the widgets panel toolbar.
    • The existing image for `Delete` is used.
  4. Since 8225 : changed RSS = buttons/feed.png in the section [Boxes], the new image `feed.png` replaces the old `rss.png`.
  5. Since 8265 : new Content block image = buttons/content-block-small.png in the section [Images], the new image `Content-block-small.png` appears as header image without function in the content block toolbar.
  6. Since 8393 : new entries in the section [Images] with a new button image; Panel widgets = buttons/widget.png and Widget = buttons/widget.png, the same image used for the new widgets panel and for the list of widgets in the panel.
  7. Since 8393 : new entries in the section [Images] with existing button images; Open widget = buttons/go.png and Close widget = buttons/stop.png, in use in the `Widgets panel toolbar` and in the `Manage widgets-tab toolbar`. Also in use in these toolbars: the existing button images for Add to bookmarks and for Delete.

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Other changes:

  1. Since 8031 : some Dialog-images appears now in the new Error console.
  2. Since 8212 : About the missing network tab; in Opera 9 we have the Site preferences dialog (rightclick in a page and choose `Edit site preferences`). Some users complained about the disappearing network tab there with several skins. The solution:
    • The network tab at the right disappears if the amount of margins and paddings left and right for the [Tab button skin] is to big. Possibly you have to count also the margins or paddings for the [Tabs skin] and remember also the entry Center tabs = 1 or 0 in [Options].
    • Unfortunately it is not on each computer the same effect; perhaps you see the tab, but with another machine the tab disappears. As a rule of thumb you can take: if you see enough space at the right for one and a half tabs more, your skin is alright. But if there is only space for about one tab or less, it is better to reduce the paddings and margins mentioned above. With Opera 9-8501 the tabs for the `Edit site preferences` dialog are: General, Cookies, Content, Display, Scripting and Network.
    • Please note also: the [Tab button skin] may change your pagebar tabs (see below) as well as: [Tab button skin] and [Tabs skin] changes the view of all dialog-tabs and the area around.
    • If your [Tab button skin] is not cloned or a clone of the [Pagebar button skin] you have only to change the mentioned paddings and margins, but if it is in reverse order, [Pagebar button skin] is a clone of the [Tab button skin], you have to work a little bit more (or thinking about to change the clone order).
  3. Since 8359 : a very old bug seems to be fixed; to choose a skin with the mouse in Appearance - Skins works now as expected also if some skins uses different paddings or margins in this dialog.
  4. Since 8460 : the difficulties around the Dropdown skin seems to be fixed now (mentioned in 8031 and 8432 )
  5. Since 8482 : the bad behaviour on the pagebar tabs seems to be fixed (mentioned in: 8460 )

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Unfinished items:

  1. Since 8031 : new Missing bookmark = buttons/missing_bookmark.png and Highlight bookmark = buttons/highlight_bookmark.png in [Images], the temporarily tested controversial star in the addressbar is skipped, but the images and entries are still there.
    • It is possible to make a toolbar button with the same functionality as the star in the addressbar.
    • And: the `Notes` icon still appears in the addressbar if something from the current page is copied to the notes.
  2. Since 8212 : new .../buttons/pin.png, this button image was in use in the skipped widget mode. Now no longer used, but the image is still there.
  3. Since 8212 : new [Cycler Button Skin], I suppose this section is for the thumbnails in the cycler, but there is no effect (in v9-8501 the background there seems to be taken from the [Selector button skin])
  4. Since Opera 8: .../startup_dialog/header.gif, this old image was in use for Opera 7 / M2: the image is still there.

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Summary for tweakers:

Some interesting things:

  1. Mentioned in 8410 : Found: in the toolbar.ini you can set Progress,6 as an entry in order to use the `Progressbar simple` on any toolbar. Unfortunately this bar seems not to have a own section in the skin.ini like all other progress bar parts (it is not the `Progress simple skin` and not `Progress general skin`).
  2. Mentioned in 8393 : Found in the toolbar.ini: Hide Opera,1 The `,1` as first parameter after the command seems to hide the shortcut `(Ctrl+H)` in the buttons title (which appears in the status bar, the statusfield and in the tooltip). For another button I saw `-1` in order to display the shortcut (and `no first parameter` in order to hide the shortcut); it seems to be the correct value if `1` is already in use for another purpose in this command.
  3. Mentioned in 8303 : New language file numbers; all entries are numbered in a new way; with nine- or ten-digit numbers now. After some primarily difficulties it seems to be this way now:
    • Toolbar.ini and Menu.ini for Opera 9.x only: please use the new numbers only.
    • Toolbar.ini and Menu.ini for Opera 8.x and 9.x: please use the old numbers, but in case of items which exists in Opera 9.x only use the new numbers. Opera seems to `translate` the old numbers into the new numbering if you change a toolbar (e.g. by drag and drop). We all hope this `translating mechanism` will stay as it is; otherwise there is a lot of work for all the button- and menu-tweakers...
  4. Mentioned in 8265 : Toolbar.ini - New parameters; in the section [Content Block Toolbar.content] you find the new entry: Button,"Block content",,2,0=Enable content blocker,,,,"Content block image" | Disable content blocker,,,,"Content block image" which is not in use currently; the commands are not valid. But very interesting are the new parameters between the leading `Button` and the `=`-sign (,,,2,0).
    • The first parameter is the well known buttons title ("Title" or a number without quotes for a language file entry). The second parameter concerns the well known font size for the buttons title (nothing or 100 is default size).
    • `The new third parameter` sets the button type in a new way by taking a skin.ini section:
    • Nothing, 0 or 1 is the [Push button skin] (with [Push default button skin] for .pressed, .selected and so on)
    • 2 is the original button image normally defined in [Images]
    • 3 is [Selector button skin]
    • 4 is [Link button skin]
    • 5 is [Tab button skin]
    • 6 is [Pagebar button skin]
    • 7 is [Header button skin]
    • 8 is [Menu button skin]
    • 10 is [Radio button skin]
    • 11 is [Checkbox skin]And `the new fourth parameter` sets the button style:
    • 0 sets it to be image only
    • 1 is text only
    • 2 is image with text below
    • 3 is image with text on right.Since 9.0-8265 the new third and fourth parameters seems to work with all buttons. Unfortunately it is actually not possible to submit such buttons (with parameters in front of the `=`sign) via "opera:button"... . Perhaps I`m wrong, but it seems that there is also no way to submit other things like checkboxes, quickbuttons, dropdowns and searchfields and so on (all things without `Button=` in front).
    • Hold in mind: the third and fourth parameter in front of the `=`sign you can only use for test purposes: they are changed automatically by Opera 9.x into normal buttons, checkboxes and radio buttons without 3./4. parameter as soon as the toolbar is changed, e.g. you drag and drop something on the concerned toolbar!

  1. Mentioned in 8455 : the command `Save document as,1` with the parameter `1`, found in the keyboard.ini.
    • This command saves as Html-file, all images are saved in a separate folder. To use in the menu- and toolbar.ini too.
    • The old commands `Save document` and `Save document as` seems currently both to save as common Html-file without images. The superold `Save with images as` works not since ages.
    • See: AdvancedToolbarINIGuide - Save with images, I added there two button-examples which combines the commands and works for Opera 8.x and 9.x.

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Opera 9.0, final version, 8502 [⊗]

No skin changes since the last weekly preview 8501.
There seems to exist a 8502 (never found); only with small changes in the installer.

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Opera 9.0, final version, 8501 [⊗]

No skin changes since the last weekly preview 8501. Please note the Summary for all changes from Opera 8 to 9 final.

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9.0, 27.weekly preview, 8501 [⊗]

Latest or last...? No skin changes since the last weekly preview 8496

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9.0, 26.weekly preview, 8496 [⊗]

No skin changes since the last weekly preview 8493

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9.0, 25.weekly preview, 8493 [⊗]

Skin changes since the last weekly preview 8490:

  1. The new RSS-icon is back; the file buttons/feed.png displays now the new `feed`-image again (mentioned in: 8225 and 8482 )

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9.0, 24.weekly preview, 8490 [⊗]

No skin changes since the last weekly preview 8482

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9.0, 23.weekly preview, 8482 [⊗]

Skin changes since the last weekly preview 8473:

  1. Due to some difficulties with the originator, the RSS = buttons/feed.png in the section [Boxes], is changed again; the file `feed.png` displays for the present the old `rss`-image (mentioned in: 8225 )
  2. The `bad behaviour on the pagebar tabs` seems to be fixed (mentioned in: 8460 )

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9.0, 22.weekly preview, 8473 [⊗]

No skin changes since the last weekly preview 8460

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9.0, 21.weekly preview, 8460 [⊗]

Changes since the last weekly preview 8455:

  1. New bad behaviour on the pagebar tabs: if the tabs title is wider than the `Pagebar max button width=` in [Options] the title disappears now unsightly behind the `Pagebar close button`. Before there was a little bit space, like without close button (there it works). No chance to change something with margins or paddings for the `Pagebar close button skin` or the `Pagebar button skin`.
    • The above thing you see also if the pagebar is placed at left or right because there the width is limited. And here is the next thing which need attention: we do not have the possibility to set a `Pagebar max/min button width=` for the pagebar at left and right separately! Usually the max. for a horizontal pagebar is ways to much for the vertical bars at left/right (but this pious hope I have since Opera 7...).
  2. About the Addendum to 8432 : the difficulties around the `Dropdown skin` seems to be fixed now!

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9.0, 20.weekly preview, 8455 [⊗]

No skin changes since the last weekly preview 8432

For tweakers:

Found in the keyboard.ini: the command with parameter `Save document as,1`.

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9.0, 19.weekly preview, 8432 [⊗]

Changes since the last weekly preview 8414 or since the beta2 -8414-:

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9.0, beta 2, -8414- [⊗]

No skin changes since the last weekly preview 8414

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9.0, 18.weekly preview, 8414 [⊗]

No skin changes since the last weekly preview 8410.

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9.0, 17.weekly preview, 8410 [⊗]

No changes since the last weekly preview 8406.

For tweakers:

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9.0, 16.weekly preview, 8406 [⊗]

Changes since the last weekly preview 8393:

For tweakers:

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9.0, 15.weekly preview, 8393 [⊗]

The `Widget panel - weekly`, changes since the last weekly preview 8372:

  1. New entries in the section [Images] with a new button image: Panel widgets = buttons/widget.png and Widget = buttons/widget.png, the same image used for the new widgets panel and for the list of widgets in the panel.
  2. New entries in the section [Images] with existing button images: Open widget = buttons/go.png and Close widget = buttons/stop.png, in use in the `Widgets panel toolbar` and in the `Manage widgets-tab toolbar`. Also in use in these toolbars: the existing button images for Add to bookmarks and for Delete (awkward: the two red crosses side by side there).

For tweakers:

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9.0, 14.weekly preview, 8372 [⊗]

Addendum about the missing network tab: since 9p2-8212 we have the Site preferences dialog (rightclick in a page and choose `Edit site preferences`). Some users complained about the disappearing network tab there with several skins. Especially Vespesian drived me to search for a solution, thanks Vespesian.

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9.0, beta 1, -8367- [⊗]

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9.0, 13.weekly preview/beta rc, 8371 [⊗]

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9.0, 12.weekly preview, 8367 [⊗]

As it is now, it is not possible to combine the different needs. Also the design of a toolbar must not be the same as for the handle background (corners, borders and so on). I hope we skinwriters will `receive` a own section for the widget handle background.

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9.0, 11.weekly preview, 8359 [⊗]

  1. Addendum: `Widget Flop = push_button/center.png, 1, 8, 10, 10, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0` in the section [Images], Skin.ini since 9p2-8321: this 1pix image, in use for push buttons normally, seems to be a `test relict`. It appears at the left of the widget handle if selected and seems to be only there as placeholder for centering the widget handle and to give a little bit distance to the buttons below (curious method, works also if you set `Widget flop = none`). See also the corresponding entry in the toolbar.ini in the section [Widget handle toolbar.content]. Still not unriddled: the 6.-9. parameter for these entries in the skin.ini???
  2. Addendum: the background around the `Widget handle` is defined with the [Toolbar skin] which is a relative to the [Window skin]. There is a first part, just around the handle and the flip button, and a second part around the buttons below the handle - both defined separately with the [Toolbar skin] (see also the [AdvancedSkinGuide - Toolbar skin] ).

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9.0, 10.weekly preview, 8348 [⊗]

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9.0, 9.weekly preview, 8333 [⊗]

For tweakers:

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9.0, 8.weekly preview, 8326 [⊗]

For tweakers:

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9.0, 7.weekly preview, 8321 [⊗]

  1. `Widget Handle = widgets/widget_handle.png, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0` in the section [Images], Skin.ini: new image for accessing the widgets, visible at the top of the screen (F6).
  2. `Widget Flip = widgets/flip.png, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0` in the section [Images], Skin.ini: this new arrow image is for changing the widget handle settings.
  3. `Widget Flop = push_button/center.png, 1, 8, 10, 10, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0` in the section [Images], Skin.ini, Addendum: this 1pix image, in use for push buttons normally, seems to be a `test relict`. It appears at the left of the widget handle if selected and seems to be only there as placeholder for centering the widget handle and to give a little bit distance to the buttons below (curious method, works also if you set `Widget flop = none`). See also the corresponding entry in the toolbar.ini in the section [Widget handle toolbar.content].
  1. For the new things above: the parameters 1-5 are for Colorizing 1/0, Margin Left, Margin top, Margin right and Margin bottom. The parameters 6-9 are for ???

For tweakers:

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9.0, 6.weekly preview, 8303 [⊗]

For tweakers:

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9.0, 5.weekly preview, 8265 [⊗]

  1. `Content block image = buttons/content-block-small.png` in the section [Images]: Skin.ini. The new image `Content-block-small.png` appears currently as header image without function in the content block toolbar.
  2. `[Pagebar head skin] and [Pagebar tail skin]`: Skin.ini. Addendum: individual settings for .left, .bottom and .right are no longer supported since 9.0p1-8031.

For tweakers:

- Please note also the new entry in the `Save as...` dialog, inside the filetype dropdown: `Web archive (single file)`.
- New, among other things, are also some entries in the language-file concerning the several views in the history panel (71963-67).

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9.0, 4.weekly preview, 8246 [⊗]

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9.0, 3.weekly preview, 8238 [⊗]

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9.0, 2.weekly preview, 8225 [⊗]

  1. `RSS = buttons/feed.png` in the section [Boxes]: Skin.ini. The new image `feed.png` replaces the old `rss.png`.

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9.0, 1.weekly preview, 8219 [⊗]

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9.0-P2 preview, 8212 [⊗]

  1. [Tooltip skin]: Skin.ini. Describes the background for the thumbnails in the tabs, no padding=/margin= possible, but color=, text color=, border=, border color= and `9tile-images` works well for the whole pop-up. The tooltips which appears with `Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Browsing - Show tooltips ON` you cannot change this way; the color there is taken from the operating system (in Win it is the color for `Quickinfo`, in Unix you must be able to change the color via Opera:config).
    • Someone asked about a border around the thumnail image only: in case you defined a color for the pop-up, you can add an image with the additional entries `Type=Boxtile` and `Corner topleft=xy.png`. The image must have the size 138x104px, please let 2px above and 2px at the left and then draw a 1px border to the right lower corner, save only the border as alpha channel. See also the post at myOpera
  2. [Low Security Button Skin]: Skin.ini. This new section describes the background which appears at the right in the addressbar; greyed for sites using an encrypted connection, but have a low security rating.
    • Similar to the existing [Security Button Skin] but grey.
    • In order to follow non-troppo`s earlier discussed rule for the Security Button Skin I suggest here: grey with black textcolor, and please set Colorize=0 for this section!
  3. [Low Security Button Skin.hover]: Skin.ini. The .hover image for the Low Security Button Skin.
  4. [Content Block Toolbar Skin]: Skin.ini. This section describes the background for the Content-block toolbar, which appears inside the page if you choose `Block content` in the rightclick menu of a page (allows simply to click page elements you wish to block in future).
    • To define such sections for .left, .bottom and .right separately is no longer supported (that was temporarily possible).
    • If the section exists but no image and no color is defined, the background will be taken from the [Window skin] (since 8238).
  5. [Cycler Window Skin]: Skin.ini. This section describes the background for the window appearing if you press ALT+Pagedown or ALT+Pageup in order to cycle your tabs. Besides it is also the whole background for the same but enlarged window, if in Opera:config - User prefs - `Use Thumbnails in Window Cycle` is ON.
  6. [Cycler Skin]: Skin.ini. This section describes the background only for the middle part of the enlarged cycler window including the part behind the thumbnails at the right. So you are able to set a main background (Cycler Window Skin) and a possibly transparent background for the middle part (Cycler Skin).
  7. [Cycler Button Skin]: Skin.ini. I suppose this section is for the thumbnails in the case described above, but there is no effect: is there anybody who knows more?
  8. `Add widget = buttons/new_page.png` in the section [Images]: Skin.ini. This button image appears in the small toolbar you see at the right lower corner during a widget is displayed.
    • The existing image for `New page` is used.
  9. `Remove widget = buttons/delete.png` in the section [Images]: Skin.ini. This button image appears in the small toolbar you see at the right lower corner during a widget is displayed.
    • The existing image for `Delete` is used.
  10. `Pin widget = buttons/pin.png` in the section [Images]: Skin.ini. This button image appears in the small toolbar you see at the right lower corner during a widget is displayed.
    • The NEW image in ...buttons/pin.png is here in use.
    • Please note: in the small widget toolbar appears also the button image for `Close=...`.
  11. `Remove widget mode = widgets/remove_widget.png` in the section [Images]: Skin.ini. This NEW black/white image appears on a widget if the remove button in the toolbar is clicked.
  12. `Pinned widget mode = widgets/pinned_widget.png` in the section [Images]: Skin.ini. This NEW black/white image appears for a short time on a widget if it is pinned.
  13. `Unpinned widget mode = widgets/unpinned_widget.png` in the section [Images]: Skin.ini. This NEW black/white image appears for a short time on a widget if it is unpinned.

Please note also: the controversial star in the addressbar is skipped now (9.0p1), but the image-entries `Highlight bookmark=` and `Missing bookmark=` are not deleted (see toolbar.ini-tips below). The `Notes` icon still appears if something from the current page is copied to the notes.

For setupwriters, toolbar.ini-changes:

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9.0-P1 preview, 8031 [⊗]

  1. [Pagebar locked button skin]: Skin.ini. This new section describes the image that appears at the right of a pagebar tab if the tab is locked; trough the rightclick menu. The image is originally saved in the skin-zipfolder buttons/lock_page.png.
    • In the original it`s a locked padlock. Please use the same image size as for the [Pagebar close button skin] and if you are using also the same paddings, margins and so on, you have no problems.
    • Unfortunately Opera v9p1 dim`s the image, so you are forced to take image colors with a high contrast to the tab. If the tabs for normal/selected differs to much, you can use in addition [Pagebar locked button skin.selected] with a different image.
  2. Missing bookmark=buttons/missing_bookmark.png in [Images]: Skin.ini. This new image, a grey star, appears in the addressbar at the right and it starts the `Add to bookmarks`-dialog if the address isn`t already stored.
  3. Highlight bookmark=buttons/highlight_bookmark.png in [Images]: Skin.ini. If the address already exists in the bookmarks, this new image, a colorized star, appears in the addressbar at the right and pushing starts the bookmarks panel with the existing bookmark highlighted.
    • If you don`t like this new option, you can use the entrys but with an invalid image name: `Highlight bookmark=none.png` or `Missing bookmark=none.png` stops the one and/or the other star - thanks Moose.
    • If you `Copy to note` something from a page, the star would change to the Notes icon - clicking brings up the notes panel. However then it`s no longer possible to bookmark the page via the icon.
  4. Note also: at least the dialog-image for `Error` appears now also in the new Error console, e.g. mail - not connected. In some skins I had a box-image there with a fixed size and different childs for saving some filesize. But the fixed size results now in a very unsightly error image; v9.0p1 shrinks the image very strong in the console, but the fixed size prevents from shrinking...
  5. Changed behaviour in [Dropdown skin] for unknown reasons; now the inner text part of such a field seems to have a fixed size. The new thing makes it more difficult to style the dropdown skin, almost existing stylings there needs at least some adjustments:
    • Padding top/bottom= in [Dropdown skin] no longer concerns the `inner os-color part` of a field, but they still works for icons inside the field.
    • Padding left= shifts the icon at the left; it goes now under the inner text part, before it shifted together with the text part.
    • Padding right= shifts the icons at the right, e.g. `RSS`- and the new `Missing/Highlight bookmarks`-icons as well as the `Security Button Skin`, but they shifts over the inner text part and lets this part untouched, before the text part was hidden trough the outer part.
    • Vertical/horizontal margins are not changed, they gives space from the field to the toolbar borders/elements, like before.
    • The changes concerns also the [Dropdown Button Skin] at the right of such a field; the space for this button is now limited - thanks to Soedib and Mamiya Otaru.
  6. `[Pagebar head skin] and [Pagebar tail skin]`: Skin.ini. Individual settings for .left, .bottom and .right are no longer supported since 9.p1.
Other interesting things in 9.0p1:

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Opera 8.54, security update..., 7730 [⊗]

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Opera 8.53, security update, 7722 [⊗]

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8.0 beta 3 [⊗]

  1. [Secure popup header skin]: Skin.ini. This new section describes the image that appears as header in a pop-up with hidden addressbar; it shows the real (secure) address of this pop-up (click on the image displays the addressbar).
    • It seems this section replaces the "Panel toggle skin.top".
    • In the standard skin, the image displays the same yellow colors like the "Security button skin".
    • `Hidden addressbar` is only possible if "Allow script to hide addressbar" is ON in `Preferences - Advanced - Content - Javascript options`.
  2. [Secure popup header skin.hover]: Skin.ini. The .hover image for the Secure popup header skin.
  3. [Insecure Popup Header Skin]: Skin.ini. This new section describes the header image for an insecure pop-up.
  4. [Insecure Popup Header Skin.hover]: Skin.ini. The .hover image for the Insecure popup header skin.
  5. [Horizontal separator]: Skin.ini. This new section describes the images for horizontal separators, used for example in the new preferences or in appearance dialogs.
  6. [Vertical separator]: Skin.ini. This new section describes the images for vertical separators, used in ??? This section was in use since Opera 7, but I never found the sense (the old wrong name was "Vertical sepErator"!).
  7. `Type = BoxtileHorizontal`: Skin.ini, actually used in [Horizontal separator] together with `Tile center=` and `Height=`. This new entry defines an image with fixed height for multiple horizontal use (but not vertical).
  8. `Type = BoxtileVertical`: Skin.ini, actually used in [Vertical separator] together with `Tile center=` and `Width=`. This new entry defines an image with fixed width for multiple vertical use (but not horizontal).

No new image-files in 8.0b3; the images for the new separators comes from the known folder `\border`.

For toolbar.ini freaks only, the news in 8.0b3:
Comments:

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8.0 beta 1 [⊗]

  1. Trash.attention - highlights when a new blocked popup occurs.
  2. Panel Toggle Skin.top & Panel Toggle Skin.bottom - Defines the panel toggle for top/bottom, though the name is misleading as this actually defines the address bar toggle for pages who do not hve the address bar shown, such as popup windows with hidden address bar. The new horizontal toggle appears if there is a popup without addressbar, and if in the Javascript options "Allow script to hide addressbar" is On. The toggle switches the addressbar On (but not Off).
  3. Panel Toggle Skin.top/bottom In [Boxes] - the child images for the Panel toggle skin mentioned above.
  4. [Startup dialog skin] and [Startup dialog header skin] - Since 7.6p1 this two sections ar not in use in the standard skin, but the sections worked normally in each other skin. For many skinwriters this was the place to say which skin and which version is in use. But now, since 8.0b1, the [Startup dialog header skin] is out of order: the image appears not! Before we had a background from [Startup dialog skin] and a image with invisible elements on top from [Startup dialog header skin]. Actually the only way to have a header is: to change the background image on the top left corner. Is that the final solution?
  5. Personalbar icons and Windowbar icons - The behaviour of this icons in the personalbar and the pagetabs are heavy changed! Before, the dimension of the images was the skinwriters matter, but now...! If the image is larger or smaller than 16x16 pixels, the image shrinks or expands to 16x16. No chance to change that, no chance to have images in other dimensions. The only way is, to create invisible pictures in 16x16 and to place the real image inside the square. Perhaps thats because the Favicons have to be always 16x16?
  6. Spacing = xy - Since 7.6p4. To use in button sections. The entry describes the distance between icon and text in pixels, horizontally (Images and text on right) and vertically (Images and text below). But not in all cases: in the personal bar it describes only the distance between the icons! Perhaps we find other bars with this different behaviour (pagebar=distance between tabs)? Generally, for me it would be a good idea to have `spacing` also for single buttons, example "Back = small_buttons/back.png,1,2,3,4,5,6 (1=colorizing on/off, 2-5=Margins and 6=spacing), and for you?

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7.6 preview 4 [⊗]

  1. Button Text Padding = 0 - This new entry in [Options] supresses all paddings around buttons text inside the skin - zero padding, (0/1).
  2. [Notifier skin] - This new section describes the skin for all notifiers together (blocked popups, transfers, mail...)
  3. Spacing = xy - The new entry describes the distance between icon and text, horizontally and vertically.
  4. [Pagebar close button skin.hover/pressed/selected.hover/pressed.selected] - This new sections are used for additional behaviour of the pagebar close buttons.
  5. [Hotlist panel header skin] - No longer used in standard skin, but can we use this section in future?
  6. [Toolbar skin] - No longer used in standard skin, but can we use this section in future?
  7. [Addressbar skin] - No longer used in standard skin, but can we use this section in future?
  8. [Status title skin] - Currently (Opera 8.01) this seems to style solely the background of the title section of a chat window's title bar.
  9. Blocked = buttons/blocked.png - This image you see in the `blocked popup notifier` in front of the text. Only there?
  10. Progress bar: simple - The small popup in the addressfield. But it seems that we have no seperate skinning possibilities like for the other progress parts?
Questions:
  1. Popup notifier placement - With a button for only the `Internal blocked popup list`, the notifier appears at the corner bottom right instead of near the button. The `blocked popup notifier` seems to be pinned to the popup menu "Closed Pages Menu" instead of the popup menu "Internal blocked popup list". Ok, actually it`s the only way to move the notifier to another place, but I think that was not the meaning? Apart from that: notifiers on/off and individual placement would be good things.
  2. Icons in the `Internal blocked popup list` - Actually we see the normal page-icon for all entrys in the blocked popup list. Why not display the blocked-icon there for better distinction?

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7.6 preview 1-3 [⊗]

  1. [Viewbar Skin] - for the new view toolbar linked to the page.
  2. [Start Popup Skin] / [Startbar Skin] - For the popup Startbar
  3. In [Images]:
    1. Start listening - voice icon
    2. Stop listening - voice icon
    3. Stop speaking - voice icon
    4. Top10 - for the Top10 dropdown list in the Startbar
  4. In [Boxes]:
    1. RSS - For the RSS button that come in the URL field
    2. Panel Toggle Skin.left / Panel Toggle Skin.right - for the new panel toggle

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