Ayepecks Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 IMO, Opera's never looked good, but this skin looks a bit better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazysah Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Wow. I absolutely love this skin and I love Opera! Opera 9.5 final or 10 final... whichever it will be is going to be better than Firefox 3.0! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogurth Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Some fast changes to the skin have just been released, get it with the new Opera 9.5 build. Turtle Wax By toman. Friday, 6. June 2008, 17:38:00 300 skin comments in a day We have tried to polish at least some of the areas you commented on: Improved contrast between active and inactive tabs in the tab bar Higher contrast for the text on inactive tabs to increase readability, especially on laptops Brighter background in the panels A tiny bit more color: We added the Home button as default by popular demand We tuned the color intensity of the color themes (Tools: Appearance: Color scheme) to be more usable with both this and other skins. Try it out again! Improved visibility of the scrollbars Buttons no longer grow wider when you press them Nicer background for security status on https pages WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all. Known issues: Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled. Changelog Fixed the panel selector dropdown Fixed all search related bugs in the previous snapshot Changed default Speed dial search engine from Yahoo to Ask Made it possible to set a custom title for the Developer Tools (Dragonfly) Window using <title> in the tool top level document Fixed a plugin crash http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted June 6, 2008 Veteran Share Posted June 6, 2008 Count me in to the minority. In my opinion the skin is ugly on all platforms, with the Mac OS X version being the worst. Same here. The default theme should blend in with the OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 FINALLY. I really have no problem with opera's ui layout, but damn the skin has been so outdated and terrible looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted June 6, 2008 Author Subscriber² Share Posted June 6, 2008 Argh. After downloading the updated build I recognised an ID-10-T error of mine: Opera used the 'Macintosh native' skin in the screenshot I posted earlier, not the default skin. /me flagellates self That said, here's a screenshot of the updated default skin. Under Mac OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 I think I belong to the minority who didn't like it. Too thick, close buttons are too small, file menu's too out of place, and the triangular joint things are.. well, too Window Blindsy. I think it is a large improvement over the old theme but I agree with these points, this is just the first version so hopefully it gets fine tuned. The icons sure look a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lare2 Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Argh. After downloading the updated build I recognised an ID-10-T error of mine: Opera used the 'Macintosh native' skin in the screenshot I posted earlier, not the default skin. /me flagellates self That said, here's a screenshot of the updated default skin. Under Mac OS X. Now that looks better (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th3rEsa Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Uh, what a progress... Opera's design has been changed from an ugly skin which doesn't fit any Windows theme to an ugly skin which slightly fits Windows Vista's default theme... great... Another reason why I'll stick with Firefox... that's not intended as a flame, but looking at the screenshots posted here (and after having tried it myself under Windows XP) I think those guys @ Opera don't have any clue of usability... edit: Though I guess that some Opera users here don't even care what's been changed but that anything has been changed... :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stezo2k Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 that looks well sweet. shame i prefer firefox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpgfan Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 that looks well sweet. shame i prefer firefox +1 for agreement. It really is a shame. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR.T Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I like that alot better than there old one... maybe i'll give opera another try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gibs Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Whoa that looks sweeet! However, I've always felt that the IE7 theme on vista looks great, because its simple and fits in with the rest of the OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I hope they tailor the size better to whatever resolution people are using, as I suspect that's where a lot of the complaints are coming from that it's too big. I run 1680x1050 so I like it a lot. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hak Foo Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Well, it's been a month, it's time to try and get mildly frustrated with Opera. It just annoys me that a bunch of obvious things don't work right out of the box: 1. It's too agressive with caching-- i. e. a login system that redirects to itself doesn't always load the new page. The fix: Turn off "show recently viewed pages". 2. The "new window" button becomes "new tab" unless I switch off the default behaviour of "open windows as tabs". It almost seems like it's taking the "be very tab-oriented" thing too literally for its own good. 3. How come I can't make the tab bar disappear if there's only one tab? I suspect it stays even when directed to collapse-if-unused for the sake of the new-tab button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boktai1000 Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Well if i can recall Opera looked horrible on Linux last time i checked (default skin anyways, didnt play around much) and this is an improvement imo but I still wont be using it. I do want to see what it ends up looking like in the long run though and with a few tweaks they could make it look alot nicer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red. Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Well, it's been a month, it's time to try and get mildly frustrated with Opera.It just annoys me that a bunch of obvious things don't work right out of the box: 1. It's too agressive with caching-- i. e. a login system that redirects to itself doesn't always load the new page. The fix: Turn off "show recently viewed pages". 2. The "new window" button becomes "new tab" unless I switch off the default behaviour of "open windows as tabs". It almost seems like it's taking the "be very tab-oriented" thing too literally for its own good. 3. How come I can't make the tab bar disappear if there's only one tab? I suspect it stays even when directed to collapse-if-unused for the sake of the new-tab button. Well for number 3, you have to right click on the tab bar and go to customise and then tick 'show only when needed'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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