<li><a href="#9-9981">9.5 preview-9981</a> (9. March 2008)</li>

<li><a href="#9-9972">9.5 preview-9972</a></li>

Opera 9.5, 30.preview, 9981 [⊗]

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

• But there is still the bug from the previous preview: [Cycler page button skin.attention.selected] must be changed to [Cycler page button skin.selected.attention], otherwise the blue text color for `unread / selected` have no effect
• The `Menu skin`, `Tooltip skin` and `Browser skin` (mentioned in the previous changelogs)
• Dialog.ini: New checkbox for `...SECURE_CONNECT` in [New account dialog]
• Keyboard.ini: Changed entries for `Focus addressfield` in [Browser window] and [Document window] (the same entries have changed in the standard_keyboard_compat.ini too)
• Language file, .lng: Changed entry (1653233619)

- 9.5-9981 Download and changelog: Desktop team

<li><a href="#9-9972">9.5 preview-9972</a> (6. March 2008)</li>

<li><a href="#9-9945">9.5 preview / beta2-9945</a></li>

Opera 9.5, 29.preview, 9972 [⊗]

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

• Text color for notifiers now possible, additional sections for the `Cycler page buttons` (with a bug), a new icon for `Link-folder` and a new icon entry for `Trash large`, as well as a changed animation from .gif to .png (apng). Finally the `dropup arrow` is back.
• 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!)
• 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!
• Skin.ini: New entry in the section [Images], Target folder = icons/folder_closed_link.png referring to the new/added icon image
• Skin.ini: New entry in the section [Images], Trash large = icons/trash.png, the icon therefore is already existing
• New icon-image icons/folder_closed_link.png as mentioned above
• The icons/dropup.png image is back; that was lacking since preview-9807
• 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!)
• Please note the new developer tool `Dragonfly` (to reach in Tools - Advanced - Developer tools)
• The `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 `since ages`!
• Dialog.ini: Completely renewed [Ask cookie dialog]. Position change in the [Customize toolbar dialog]. Several changes in the [Server properties dialog] and changes in the [New preferences dialog] (chat_notification_checkbox appears where?). Renewed [Security information dialog]
• Keyboard.ini: Changed preconditions for `v = speak selection` in [Application]
• Menu.ini: New section: [Note folder popup menu]
• Toolbar.ini: Changed icon name for `Closed pages menu` in [Customize toobar browser.content], [Pagebar tail newstyle.content] and [Pagebar tail.content].
• Language file, .lng: A lot of changes and additions, above all for the new cookie management/dialogs

- 9.5-9972 Download and changelog: Desktop team

<li><a href="#9-9945">9.5 preview / beta2-9945</a> (24. April 2008)</li>

<li><a href="#9-9937">9.5 preview-9937</a></li>

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

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

• Menu.ini: Changed entry about `M_DEVELOPER_TOOLS` in the section [Advanced tools menu]
• Toolbar.ini: Changed entry about `...MAILVIEWTOOLBAR_UNDELETE` in the section [Mail feed toolbar.content]

- 9.5-9945-b2: Download, all platforms
- 9.5-9945-b2: Changelogs, all platforms

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Stretchborder = 16%%

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).

1. 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`:
2. The Gif animation support seems not to be finished, please check the community thread Skinning with animated images about that; an example you find in the ttt-paper skin, there the `Selector button skin.hover.attention` is animated; for the same skin you find also some animated buttons as first attempt on the ttt-buttons page

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Stretchborder = 16%%

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).

1. 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`:
2. The Gif animation support seems not to be finished, please check the community thread Skinning with animated images about that; an example you find in the ttt-paper skin, there the `Selector button skin.hover.attention` is animated; for the same skin you find also some animated buttons as first attempt on the ttt-buttons page

   Edited on 2008-04-18 00:41:53 by ToMu [[Skin changes in 9937]]

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   <li><a href="#9-9937">9.5 preview-9937</a> (17. April 2008)</li>

<li><a href="#9-9903">9.5 preview-9903</a></li>

Opera 9.5, 27.preview, 9937 [⊗]

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

• Changed padlock icons as well as changed mail-without-body icon.
• 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.
• 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...).
• In order to synchronize `Notes` we have now the according checkbox in File - Synchronize Opera - Opera link options. It seems that older notes (from 9.27) are not yet synchronized - for me it works only with notes from previous 9.5 previews. So it works at least partly, but on the Opera link page I still cannot find anything about synced notes...
• 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.
• Dialog.ini: New entry about `D_OPERA_LINK_NOTES` in the [Opera Login Link Dialog]. New entries about `Confirm_new_group`, `label_for_Confirm_password_edit` and `Confirm_password_edit` in the [Security Password Dialog]. A lot of size/position changes in [Manage Certificates Dialog]. One size/position change in [Account Properties Dialog]. A change about `DI_QT_PRINT_COLOR` in [Print Dialog]. And another size/position change in [Security Information Dialog].
• Keyboard.ini: Changed action for `Del shift`. Now it is `Move to trash` instead of the old `Delete mail`.
• Menu.ini: New section [Delete Mail Menu] with two new entries. Changed entry about deleting mail in [Mail Item Popup Menu]. Changed preconditions in [Windows Item Popup Menu]. New entries about `MI_IDM_SELSEARCH` and `MI_IDM_SEARCH_DUMMY_PARENT` as well as changed separators in [Link Selection Popup Menu].
• Toolbar.ini: New sections [Mail Filter Toolbar.content] with several new entries and [Mail Filter Toolbar.style]. Changed entry about `DI_IDSTR_M2_MAILVIEWTOOLBAR_UNDELETE` in [Mail Feed Toolbar.content].
• Language file (.lng): A lot of new and changed entries - again to much to list them here... .

- 9.5-9937 Download and changelog: Desktop team

~1)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!).

<li><a href="#9-9903">9.5 preview-9903</a> (8. April 2008)</li>

<li><a href="#9-9864">9.5 preview-9864</a></li>

Opera 9.5, 26.preview, 9903 [⊗]

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

• Additional security button images (padlock) as well as changed background therefore in the addressbar, and some deleted old entries.
• 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.
• 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 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).
• 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 and trust_and_security_button/security_border.png and security_center.png (please note the comment about the changed `Security button skin` above!).
• Please note the new possibility to synchronize `Notes` now; the corresponding checkbox you find in opera:config - Opera Sync - Sync notes. Tough the Opera link page seems not to be ready for notes...
• Note also that the security button you find in Tools - Appearance - Buttons - Browser view (`Customize toolbar browser view.content`) is changed now; added is the `Extended security` at the end.
• No changes in the unfinished `Menu skin`, `Tooltip skin` and `Browser skin` (Padding right there), mentioned in the last changelogs.
• Dialog.ini: Changed entry about `login details` in the [Mail authentication failed dialog]. Changed entries about `Opera link`, `Label_auth_heading`, `Link_expand`, `Link_options_label`, Bm_checkbox`, `Sd_checkbox` and Pb_checkbox` in the [Opera login link dialog].
• Toolbar.ini: Additional entries about `M_security` in [Customize toolbar browser view.content] and [Example toolbar.content] (the section `Example toolbar.content` was visible in the old preferences dialog before v8)... . Deleted entry about `Accountstatus` in [Customize toolbars status.content].
• Language file (.lng): there are such a lot of new, changed and deleted entries - about 180 - to much to list them here... .

- 9.5-9903 Download and changelog: Desktop team

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.27:

<li><a href="#9f-8841">OPERA 9.27 FINAL-8841</a> (3. April 2008)</li>

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.
- 9.27-8841 Download: Download all platforms

<li><a href="#9-9864">9.5 preview-9864</a> (28. March 2008)</li>

<li><a href="#9-9841">9.5 preview-9841</a></li>

Opera 9.5, 25.preview, 9864 [⊗]

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

• A new history icon-image and entry, as well as a changed padding entry.
• 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?).
• 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.
2. Dialog.ini: Completely deleted sections [Opera account dialog], [Sync Login Dialog], [Sync Login Options Dialog] and [Sync Recovery Dialog]. Changed two entries in the [Server Properties Dialog].
3. Menu.ini: New section [Link Selection Popup Menu] with it`s content.
4. Language file (.lng): new entries (-341312310, -198790103), as well as the deleted entry (-115956480).

- 9.5-9864 Download and changelog: Desktop team

• Translate.ini (in the unpacked install-file): Changed entries about `MSG_SEP_SETTING` and `MSG_SEP_DESC` concerning the changed profile-checkbox text in the install dialogs.

  Deleted:

  <li><a href="#9-9841">9.5 preview-9841</a> (18. March 2008)</li>

• Translate.ini: Changed entries about `MSG_SEP_SETTING` and `MSG_SEP_DESC` concerning the changed profile-checkbox text in the install dialogs.

- 9.5-9841 Download and changelog: Desktop team

Edited on 2008-03-19 02:24:36 by ToMu [[Skin changes in 9841]]

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SkinINIChanges - list of changes to skin.ini

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.

• Create a sidebar with the complete table of contents for this page. A link, clicked on the sidebar, opens the page in a normal main tab: Create sidebar

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.5:

• 9.5 preview-9789 (11. February 2008)
• 9.5 preview-9770
• 9.5 preview-9755
• 9.5 preview-9745
• 9.5 preview-9735
• 9.5 preview-9721
• 9.5 preview-9716
• 9.5 preview-9694
• 9.5 preview-9681
• 9.5 preview-9665
• 9.5 preview-9656
• 9.5 preview-9649
• 9.5 preview-9624
• 9.5 preview / beta1-9613
• 9.5 preview-9603
• 9.5 preview-9600
• 9.5 preview-9594
• 9.5 preview-9562
• 9.5 preview-9542
• 9.5 preview-9523
• 9.5 preview-9500

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.26:

• OPERA 9.25 FINAL-8827 (19. December 2007)

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.25:

• OPERA 9.26 preview-8833 (14. February 2008)

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.24:

• OPERA 9.24 FINAL-8816 (17. October 2007)

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.23:

• OPERA 9.23 FINAL-8808 (15. August 2007)
• 9.23 preview-8808
• 9.23 preview-8805

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.22:

• OPERA 9.22 FINAL-8801 (19. July 2007)
• 9.22 preview-8800)
• 9.22 preview-8796

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.21:

• OPERA 9.21 FINAL-8776 (21. May 2007)
• 9.21 preview-8776

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.2:

• Summary of skin changes from Opera 9.1 to 9.2 final

• OPERA 9.2 FINAL-8771 (11. April 2007)
• 9.2 preview-8769
• 9.2 preview-8767
• 9.2 beta-8762
• 9.2 preview-8762
• 9.2 preview-8758
• 9.2 preview-8746
• 9.2 preview-8732
• 9.2 preview-8713
• 9.12 preview-8701
• 9.1x preview-8692

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.1:

• Summary of skin changes from Opera 9 to 9.1 final

• OPERA 9.1 FINAL-8679 (18. December 2006)
• 9.1 preview-8679
• 9.1 preview-8678
• 9.1 preview-8670
• 9.1 preview-8666
• 9.1 preview-8660
• 9.1 preview-8653
• 9.1 preview-8649
• 9.1 preview-8643
• 9.1 (9.03) preview-8629

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.02:

• OPERA 9.02 FINAL-8585
• 9.02 preview/rc 2-8585
• 9.02 preview/rc 1-8584
• 9.02 preview-8573

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.01:

• OPERA 9.01 FINAL-8552
• 9.01 preview-8552
• 9.01 preview-8543
• 9.01 preview-8542
• 9.01 preview-8533
• 9.01 preview-8518
• 9.01 preview-8509
• 9.01 preview-8505

Skin changelogs for Opera 9.0:

• Summary of skin changes from Opera 8 to 9 final

• OPERA 9.0 FINAL-8502
• OPERA 9.0 FINAL-8501
• 9.0 preview-8501
• 9.0 preview-8496
• 9.0 preview-8493
• 9.0 preview-8490
• 9.0 preview-8482
• 9.0 preview-8473
• 9.0 preview-8460
• 9.0 preview-8455
• 9.0 preview-8432
• 9.0 beta 2-8414
• 9.0 preview-8414
• 9.0 preview-8410
• 9.0 preview-8406
• 9.0 preview-8393
• 9.0 preview-8372
• 9.0 beta 1-8367
• 9.0 preview-8371
• 9.0 preview-8367
• 9.0 preview-8359
• 9.0 preview-8348
• 9.0 preview-8333
• 9.0 preview-8326
• 9.0 preview-8321
• 9.0 preview-8303
• 9.0 preview-8265
• 9.0 preview-8246
• 9.0 preview-8238
• 9.0 preview-8225
• 9.0 preview-8219
• 9.0 -P2- 8212
• 9.0 -P1- 8031

Skin changelogs for Opera 8.x:

• OPERA 8.54-7730 security update
• OPERA 8.53-7722 security update

Older skin changelogs:

• 8.0 beta-3
• 8-0 beta-1
• 7.6 p-4
• 7.6 p-1 to 3

Opera 9.5, 21.preview, 9789 [⊗]

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

• New sections concerning activ/highlighted elements (in webpages) for spatial navigation. New icon entry / new icon image.

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:

• Dialog.ini: new are the entries for `Manage whitelist` and `Show security protocols` in the section [New preferences dialog]. New is also the section [Server Whitelist Dialog] with several items, as well as the section [Classic tab options dialog] with several new entries for the new tab behaviour. Changed for the same reason are also some items in the section [New preferences dialog] inside `Group, SI_IDPREFS_WINPREFDLG, Tabs-group...` as well as minor position changes inside `Group, SI_IDPREFS_WINPREFDLG, Browser-group...`.
• Keyboard.ini: in the section [Compose window] new entry Enter ctrl = Send message and changed entry from `s ctrl = Add attachment` to o ctrl = Add attachment. In the section [Application] changed entries from `Platform Mac, ] Ctrl Shift` to `Platform Mac, } Ctrl` and from `Platform Mac, [ Ctrl Shift` to `Platform Mac, { Ctrl` as well as deleted entries `Plus Shift = Zoom in,10`, `"= Ctrl" = Zoom in,10` and `Feature Extendedshortcuts, Platform Windows-Unix-Mac, * = Zoom to,100`.
• Language file (.lng): new additional entries concerning the new tabs behaviour (-660321471, -2070808432, 1175524137, -1338654854, -1204073099 as well as -969450188 and -1527352213)
• Fastforward.ini: contains some changes too.

Notes:

• Please note the new option: `Manage repositories` in Tools → Preferences → Advanced → Security.
• Note the changed Tools → Preferences → Advanced → Tabs dialog: new there is the option `Use thumbnails in window cycle` (opera:config - User Prefs | Use thumbnails in window cycle = 1/0) and new is there the dropdown for `When closing a tab` (opera:config - User Prefs | Activate Tab On Close = 0 is `Activate the last active`, 1 is `Activate the tab to the right` and 2 is `Activate the first tab opened from closing tab`)
• Note also that some older options in the tabs dialog are collected now in a separate dialog called `Classic tab options`.

- Your current version-number you find in Help - About Opera
- 9.5-9789 Download and changelog: Desktop team

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Opera 9.5, 20.preview, 9770 [⊗]

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

• Text color in tooltips works again.

Changed:

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

Note:

• Please note the new checkbox: `Show notifications for widgets` in Tools → Preferences → Advanced → Notifications.

Changed ini files:

• Dialog.ini: new is the entry for `Show notifications for widgets` in the [New preferences dialog], as well as some minor position changes there.
• Keyboard.ini: the precondition `Platform mac` is deleted for `Right ctrl` and `Left ctrl`, so these shortcuts should work now on other platforms too.
• Menu.ini: the entry for `M_DEVELOPER_TOOLS` is changed again.
• Language file (.lng): changed entry from `Opera community` to `My opera community` (956084379), as well as some minor corrections about e-mail; (`email` or `e mail` are now `e-mail` in comments too)

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Opera 9.5, 19.preview, 9755 [⊗]

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

• Regression in the skinnable tooltips. Changes again in native skins.

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:

• The base of the `Native windows skin` seems to be changed again - with each preview there are some improvements.

Changed ini files:

• Dialog.ini: deleted is the radiobutton entry `Hidden` in the [Widget properties dialog].

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Opera 9.5, 18.preview, 9745 [⊗]

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

• New: a new image type for stretched pictures, the tooltips are now skinnable. Corrected: Pagebar close button works normal now. Changed: several things in native skins

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

   

   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`:
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:

• The base of the `Native windows skin` seems to be changed. I`m not so familiar with native skins, but I noted color changes on the tabs and the panel selector (seems to be under construction). In addition several items have now it`s native base: close buttons on tabs and on notifiers, tooltips, notifiers, the expand button in the `Delete private data` dialog and the arrows in listview headers (see the official changelog for 9745).

Corrected:

• Forget the content of the addendum in the changelog for 9735; all the things mentioned there are corrected now.

Notes:

• The new tooltip on the `Pagebar close button`, mentioned in the changelog for 9735, displays no longer it`s content if the tab is locked, well done.
• Please note also the corrected `Mail header pane toolbar` (which contained formerly the subject and date in two lines): now the date is in the same line as the subject - wrapped only if necessary.
• Note also the new command line argument for Windows: with

  opera.exe -notrayicon

  it is possible to start Opera without icon in the systray; seems to be unfinished - I started with -notrayicon, minimized then to the systray and was finally not able to restore Opera...

Changed ini files:

• Changes in the menu.ini: deleted is the item about `Show on personal bar` in the [Contact trash popup menu] and changed is the link to the `Developer tools` in the [Advanced tools menu] - with the interesting new precondition `Feature...`!
• The language file (.lng) contains a correction about `Automatic retry actions in SSL` (1090463264) as well as a correction for `Could not save` (-169802367).

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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:

• Bug or intended? The subsections .selected, .selected.hover and .pressed.selected for [Pagebar close button skin] are ignored by the preview 9735. In some skins (where only the selected-tabs have a close button) the button disappears now completely, even if `Show close button on each tab` is activated. In my opinion it is a real need to have this possibility (thanks to Blinkybill for the help finding the key point; there is also a comment from Mitchman2 on myOpera about that).
• In addition it seems that the fallback-behaviour for the [Pagebar close button skin] (at least) have changed too: before, the entry `Fallback foreground = 1 or 0` in the section [Options] included the `Pagebar close button skin`, but now this section is included in `Fallback background = 1 or 0` (since preview 9500). So in all the skins where `Fallback background = 0` is set, the close buttons on tabs are disappearing now! Please note, that the default fallback is 1 (enabled) for both if the entries are lacking - and that should be the normal case for each custom skin; you cannot know future sections...
• Also the `recognize-order` for sections seems to be changed; no problem normally (since 9735). But if a skin.ini contains a section twice by mischance, the new behaviour can have unforeseen successions. So it is at least a good opportunity to check your modified skins about double sections and double entries...

Note:

• There appears a new tooltip on the pagebar close button: `Close tab (Ctrl+W)`. In my opinion this tooltip should change to `Locked tab` (or no tooltip) if the current tab is locked.

Changed ini files:

• Please note the small correction in the keyboard.ini at the end of the section [Widget properties dialog].
• The language file (.lng) contains an addition about `Developer tools` (391062233).

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Opera 9.5, 16.preview, 9721 [⊗]

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

Changed ini files:

• Please note the changes in the dialog.ini: changes and additions in [New account wizard].
• The language file (.lng) contains adapted strings about `Bittorrent` (1343611704, 1343611705), about `Intermediate certificate import`(1812083222), `Encoding from server` (-1937922503), `Myme type` (864499482) as well as `Import from Opera...` (-16709870). New is the entry for the `Tooltip for drag and drop links on toolbars` (743466299) and the entries for `mbox` (-817722855, -1424214454, 1156980347, 666812095 and 458360172).

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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.

• The first one is the old variant which is defined through the [Push button skin], appearing for example in Tools - Preferences - Search - Edit as `Details` button.
• The second is defined with the new [Disclosure Triangle Skin] for the icon and [Expand Hover Skin] for the images around text and icon; appearing in File - Synchronize Opera as `Opera Link options` button.
• The third variant is defined with [Disclosure Triangle Skin] too for the icon but with [Expand Skin] for the images around text and icon; appearing in Tools - Delete private data as `Detailed options` button.
• I cannot see any difference between the second and the third method, and I cannot understand why it is necessary to have 3 different ways for the same thing: to open/close an expanded dialog...
• And in addition we have currently the [Expand Icon Skin] as well as the two entries Expand Enabled = expand_button/icon-enabled.png and Expand Disabled = expand_button/icon-disabled.png in [Images] which are apparently not in use (at least with win as OS).

Changed ini files:

• Please note the changes in the dialog.ini: changed `Opera account dialog` and `Bittorrent start download dialog`. Note also the new `Bittorrent selection dialog`.
• The language file (.lng) contains additions about `Bittorrent` (1637975240, -272895094, 202485348, 1343611704, 1343611705 and 956329702) as well as about `Certificate import`(1617343215).

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Opera 9.5, 14.preview, 9694 [⊗]

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

• A new section and some changed and new icon entries in the skin.ini as well as the corresponding new/moved folders and images. Good news: the `Sizeable spacers` are working now correctly!

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

• I cannot find the places where the new `Account-things` appearing, perhaps they fit needs for other OS than win(xp) or they are for future use?
• The corrected grey images from the expand/ folder (mentioned in the previous changelog) you can see in the File - Synchronize Opera dialog; on the `Opera link options-button` if hover. But on other places it seems to be not yet realized (Delete private data dialog or dialogs with `Details...`-buttons...)

• Please note the changes in the dialog.ini: concerning the `Opera login link dialog` again and the `Opera account dialog`
• The language file (.lng) contains additions about `unknown strings` (1090463264), `plug-in failed` (1160366217, 310606220) and `filechooser` (-1686219948)

• The `Sizeable spacer` mentioned in the previous changelogs works now correctly also in winxp: e.g. Spacer,,50 for 50px in the toolbar.ini no longer resets to the default of 15 px if something changed in the same toolbar - well done. So we have now the possibility to create individual spacers in the desired size.

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Opera 9.5, 13.preview, 9681 [⊗]

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

• No changes in the skin.ini, but some corrected images and several changes in other ini-files, as well as `corrected` spacers but `not corrected` sizeable spacers

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?)

• Please note the changes in the dialog.ini: concerning the `Opera login link dialog`, the `Widget properties dialog` and the `Security information dialog`
• The language file (.lng) contains additions (1616276857, -265640213, 98463123 and 221648680), changes (1578430811, -609046020, -16709870 and -1514511917) as well as a deleted entry (-1000537489) concerning `Opera:widgets` which is no longer available

• About the `Sizeable spacer` mentioned in the changelog for build 9665: at least with winxp the normal `Fixed spacer` seems to be corrected - appears now with about 15px space as before. Also a sizeable spacer seems to be possible at first glance (Spacer,,50 for 50px in the toolbar.ini), but unfortunately such a spacer is set to the default of about 15px if you change something inside the same toolbar - so this `feature` works not for winxp...

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Opera 9.5, 12.preview, 9665 [⊗]

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

• New section in the skin.ini, as well as some changes in other ini-files; especially about `sizeable spacers` in the toolbar.ini

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:

• [Dropdown skin] - Identify-dropdown, Accounts-dropdown, as well as for all other dropdowns if not defined as own sections
• [Dropdown edit skin] - e.g. Address-dropdown, Zoom-dropdown
• [Dropdown search skin] - e.g. Quickfind-dropdown, Google-dropdown
• [Edit search skin] - e.g. Find In Page-searchfield, Google-searchfield
• [Edit skin] - e.g. Quick Download-field, as well as for a lot of other (not draggable) fields

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...

• Please note some changes in the dialog.ini: about the `Authentication dialog` and the `Link and Sync signup dialogs`
• The language file (.lng) contains additions about error messages for `Telnet` and a new entry for `Installed widgets` (try also `Opera:widgets` as input for the addressfield)

• The toolbar.ini includes new interesting entries for `Platform Mac` (in [Document toolbar.content]) concerning the new Sizeable spacers. They are also available for Win, try once: Spacer,0,50 or Spacer,,30 - results in a `fixed` spacer with 50 or 30 pixels - the old fixed spacer had about 15px. This option seems to be not yet finished (each change on the same toolbar resets the new spacers to zero px; also the standard fixed spacer `appears` with zero px).
• Note also the old well known behaviour; the same parameter used for buttons and so on results in a changed font size, e.g. Status,,120 gives 120% font size for the status field or Button,"Home",90=Go to homepage gives 90% fontsize for the home-button (unfortunately we cannot use such buttons for Drag and drop from a web page...).

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Opera 9.5, 11.preview, 9656 [⊗]

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

• Some new or skipped sections in the skin.ini, as well as two new icon-images and interesting new Button style settings for the toolbar.ini.

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).

• Please note the new sections in the dialog.ini: Mail authentication failed dialog], [Opera login link dialog] and [Opera account dialog] as well as the deleted sections [Sync login guest dialog] and [Sync shutdown dialog].
• The keyboard.ini have a new section [Expand widget], containing the new commands Open expand and Close expand.
• The language file (.lng) contains new entries concerning `Mail authentication failed` and `Login details`.

• The toolbar.ini includes a useful secret: Button style = 4 inserted manually to any [Xyz-toolbar.style] section, sets Images and text on left on any desired toolbar (except the Tab bar middle part - [Pagebar.style])! The new option appears not in Appearance - Toolbars - Style. Here the already existing values: 0 - Images only, 1 - Text only, 2 - Images and text below, 3 - Images and text on right, and the new one: 4 - Images and text on left.

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Opera 9.5, 10.preview, 9649 [⊗]

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

• Some new sections and entries in the skin.ini, as well as a new folder inside the skin-zip, containing new boxtile- and icon-images

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...

• Please note also the changes in the dialog.ini about the `Delete private data dialog` (with a typo: Destails expand instead of Details expand...)
• The language file (.lng) contains an addition for the `Detailed options` button in the Delete private data dialog
• The menu.ini comes with a changed precondition for the voice command in [Hotclick popup menu]
• The toolbar.ini is corrected again - concerning the `Delete` button for mail sections. Changed too here: the precondition for the voice buttons

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Opera 9.5, 9.preview, 9624 [⊗]

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

• Please note the additions in the dialog.ini about the [Opera login dialog], as well as the changed toolbar.ini; `Delete` instead of `Delete mail` in [Mail toolbar.content]
• The language file contains some corrections

• Besides: the actions Make readable and Zoom to,100 if used as commands in the same button, as mentioned in the 9594 Changelog , are working now (at least if `Zoom to` is in use as +command, since build 9600), also the old button: Zoom in,10 + Zoom to,100 works again.

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

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

• No changes in the skin.ini, but some changed images

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

• Note also some additions in the keyboard.ini, menu.ini and toolbar.ini; among other things and above all about `Delete mail` and `Synchronize`
• Also the language file includes some changes and additions; concerning `Sync now` and `Deleting targeted folders`, among other things

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Opera 9.5, 7. preview, 9603 [⊗]

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

• Some changes in the skin.ini, and some new images

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

• Note also some corrections in the menu.ini and the added section [Mail Toolbar.style] in the toolbar.ini

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Opera 9.5, 6. preview, 9600 [⊗]

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

• No progress with the APNG-support...
• No changes in the skin.ini, but some changed images

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

• Note also some changes/additions in the ini- and lng-files, above all about the synchronize option.

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Opera 9.5, 5. preview, 9594 [⊗]

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

• No changes in the skin.ini and no changed images
• About APNG-support for skins: currently APNG works partly, but there are some unfinished parts: 1) APNG-animated button images changing not the size if another size than 100% is set for `Icon size`. 2) APNG-animations displays only the first frame colorized with a color scheme. 3) APNG-animations won`t work for the [Selector Button Skin.hover].

Changes in ini- and language-files:

• Note some changes/additions in the ini- and lng-files, among other things; the `Disable` (reload every) thing is now called `Page default`, the new `Update` button for feeds, as well as the new command `Make readable` which zooms selected text (besides: Make readable and Zoom to,100 seems not to work if used as commands in the same button, also with the old button: Zoom in,10 + Zoom to,100 the `Zoom to,100` works no longer...) ADDENDUM: works again since 9600.
• Note the new styling for opera:historysearch

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Opera 9.5, 4. preview, 9562 [⊗]

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

• No changes in the skin.ini and no changed images, but perhaps there are changes for the APNG support; will be reported here...
• The unsightly font problem on the speed dial configuration dialogs seems to be done now (win)

And as usual:

• Note some additions in the menu.ini, about the new `Never` (reload every) command for pages or speed dial

• Note also some corrections and additions in the language file (.lng), e.g. `Create Follower tab` instead of `Create linked` or `Move spam to trash` instead of `Empty spam`, as well as for the Never reload thing mentioned above

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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:

• Note some corrections in the toolbar.ini, concerning the new `calling language-entries strings` and some corrections and changes in the language file (.lng).

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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:

• The Viewbar is back again with the appropriate entries in the toolbar.ini and with the old checkbox in Appearance - Toolbars. The button to toggle the viewbar you find in Appearance - Buttons - Browser view
• Note also the changed Check and Send Mail buttons in the toolbar.ini (now without `Stop check or send`)

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Opera 9.5, 1. preview, 9500 [⊗]

• Skin changes since the final-8808. Hold in mind that all the changes are provisional...

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:

• The `View bar` is gone, but the sections [Viewbar Skin] and [Viewbar Skin.bottom] still are there
• New is also the entry `Discard drafts` in the section [Mail Compose Toolbar.content] inside the Toolbar.ini, replacing the `save draft` button (drafts are now saved automatically if something is inserted to the mail body) - but there is lacking a matching button image therefore; you can create such an entry with the name `Discard draft = xy.png` in the section [Images] of the skin.ini
• Please note all the big changes in the ini-files (except the standard_mouse.ini). The cryptic new strings in the menu- and toolbar.ini seems to be another/new way to reach the entries in the language file (.lng); at the moment you can use them instead of the language-file numbers...

And more:

• Try once the new delay-option for ini-files (Delay,X where X is the delay in milliseconds). For example in the toolbar.ini:

  Button99,"Home"=Delay,3000 & Go to homepage + Delay,5000 & Set homepage

  This button goes `Home` after 3000ms/3sec if clicked, and the `Set homepage` dialog appears after 5000ms/5sec if you hold the button for a short moment. Also this button works:

  Button100,"Home"=Delay,2000 & Go to homepage & Delay,6000 & Set homepage

  A click starts `Home` after 2sec and the dialog after 6sec... . Delay works in the menu.ini too, as well as in the mouse.ini and keyboard.ini!

About the `Mini buttons`:

• The entry `Mini buttons = 1` in a [xyz.style] section inside the toolbar.ini displays the button images on each individual toolbar with 80% size and displays in addition also the settings defined in specific .mini-sections inside the skin.ini.

• Button paddings vertical and horizontal, spacing and button text padding stays as they are. Also toolbar paddings vertical and horizontal stays as they are (sometimes small differences if rounded up/off). Not affected are: Pagebar (but head and tail works well) and Personalbar, as well as the button images in treeviews and on the "Mail splitter toolbar" (no own section?).

• If defined in the skin.ini, Opera takes additional settings from these .mini-sections:

[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

• So we can have now individual toolbars with smaller button images and smaller dropdown search fields - except the normal search fields! Unfortunately the [Edit skin] is in use for several other purposes (treeview, listbox and multilineedit), so it seems currently not to be possible to enhance the [Edit search skin] / [Edit search skin.mini] (all fields without dropdown with `Edit skin` as base) like the dropdown search fields - the normal search fields stays to large for a mini-toolbar. Concretely: `Padding` in the [Edit search skin] have no effect or not the intended.

• I hope the lacking changes `coming soon` ...

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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 [⊗]

• No skin changes since the preview-8800. The summary from 9.1 to 9.2 is still valid.

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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 [⊗]

• No skin changes since the preview-8776; it seems to be the same build. You can take the changes in the latest preview as `summary` from 9.2 to 9.21...

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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:

• All the concerned new images you find in the skin folder speeddial
• The Startbar is disabled by default now (to enable in Tools - Appearance - Toolbars); the startbar overlaps the speeddial search, not so nice, but Padding top = 15 or so inside the section [Speed Dial Widget Skin] helps
• 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 these thumbnails separately...
• We still cannot customize the color for the grey thumb numbers and the grey hints inside the empty thumbs
• Buggy look in the Window cycle; black if speeddial in focus

Gif animations:

• The Gif animation support seems not to be finished, please check the community thread Skinning with animated images about that; an example you find in the ttt-paper skin, there the `Selector button skin.hover.attention` is animated; for the same skin you find also some animated buttons as first attempt on the ttt-buttons page

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 [⊗]

• Skin changes since the preview-8769: some minor changes about `Text color=` in Speeddial; please read the summary above therefore
• About animations, see the community-thread Skinning with animated images...

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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:

• Padding left= for the [Speed Dial Widget Skin] seems to work properly now.
• The unsightly black thumb background sometimes appearing after using the Window cycle seems to be eliminated.

Addendum 2. April 2007:

• About the text color for the title below a speed dial thumb: Text color= for the [Speed dial thumbnail widget skin.selected] have no effect at the moment; it`s necessary to define the color in [Speed dial thumbnail widget skin]. If not defined there, the text color is taken from the [Speed Dial Widget Skin].

For tweakers:

• Note the changed entry for `Mark as read` (now `Mark as read | Mark as unread`) in [Customize toolbar mail.content] inside the toolbar.ini.

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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:

• The common Tooltips works now on the speed dial thumbs if Show Tooltips is enabled in Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Browsing. Here to: no separate enable/disable (I`m afraid we need a `Tooltip/Thumbnail-Manager` in future)
• Since 8732 you find the option Use as Speed Dial search engine in Tools - Preferences - Search - Edit - Details. But I miss a similar option Show on Speed dial in the bookmark properties...

Still in progress (I hope):

• Not found the sense of [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin.disabled], [Speed Dial Thumbnail Title Button Skin], [Thumbnail Image Skin.hover], [Thumbnail Image Skin.disabled], [Thumbnail Title Button Skin].
• We still cannot customize the color for the grey thumb numbers and hints inside the empty thumbs.
• Padding left= for the [Speed Dial Widget Skin] seems to be buggy.
• Buggy view in the Window cycle too.

For tweakers:

• Note some changes/additions in the english.lng, keyboard.ini, and menu.ini; for the most part about speed dial. Note also the deleted search fields in [Start toolbar.content] inside the toolbar.ini.

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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:

• [Speed dial widget skin] > Black (no base)
• [Speed dial search widget skin] > Speed dial widget skin
• [Speed dial thumbnail widget skin] > Speed dial widget skin
• [Speed dial thumbnail widget skin.disabled] > Speed dial widget skin
• [Speed dial thumbnail image skin] > Speed dial thumbnail widget skin (with transparency) AND Speed dial thumbnail widget skin.disabled (without transpa