Comments on: Update: Earlier Query and Opera 9.5 Alpha http://www.randomkitty.net/blog/2007/09/04/update-early-query-and-opera-95-alpha/ you know the drill Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:52:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: DrLaunch http://www.randomkitty.net/blog/2007/09/04/update-early-query-and-opera-95-alpha/comment-page-1/#comment-67 DrLaunch Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:49:25 +0000 http://www.randomkitty.net/blog/2007/09/04/update-early-query-and-opera-95-alpha/#comment-67 Breeze is really a great skin. Although I decided to go for maximum platform integration instead by using <a href="http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=6989" title="Mirage vista in the Opera skin repository" rel="nofollow">Mirage Vista</a>. I've also tried to get the toolbar layout as close as possible to IE7. But don't get me wrong. I still don't like IE nor do I intend to keep Vista for a long time. I've preferred that panel layout for a long time, except with icons instead of text. And you can do it in almost all versions of Opera. This isn't a new feature in Opera. If you want to know which features are new, have a look <a href="http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/w950a1.html" title="Opera 9.5 Alpha 1 for Windows changelog" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Here's a screenshot of my custom Opera install: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drlaunch/1334970052/" title="Photo Sharing" rel="nofollow"></a> Setting up Opera to be like that is really complicated. Once I've perfected it I think I'll share the .ini file. Here are some of the things I did. I customized some menu buttons from <a href="http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons#menu" title="Menu section of OperaWiki.info's custom buttons" rel="nofollow">here</a> and added icons from Opera to them. I used a custom button from the same page to toggle the menu bar off. I enabled my main bar and Shift + dragged all the contents to it. Then I disabled the unused address bar. If you ever need to know something about Opera, ask me or ask in the <a href="irc://irc.opera.com/opera" title="Direct link to the Opera IRC channel on OperaNet" rel="nofollow">Opera IRC channel on OperaNet.</a> Breeze is really a great skin. Although I decided to go for maximum platform integration instead by using Mirage Vista. I’ve also tried to get the toolbar layout as close as possible to IE7. But don’t get me wrong. I still don’t like IE nor do I intend to keep Vista for a long time.

I’ve preferred that panel layout for a long time, except with icons instead of text. And you can do it in almost all versions of Opera. This isn’t a new feature in Opera. If you want to know which features are new, have a look here.

Here’s a screenshot of my custom Opera install:

Setting up Opera to be like that is really complicated. Once I’ve perfected it I think I’ll share the .ini file. Here are some of the things I did. I customized some menu buttons from here and added icons from Opera to them. I used a custom button from the same page to toggle the menu bar off. I enabled my main bar and Shift + dragged all the contents to it. Then I disabled the unused address bar.

If you ever need to know something about Opera, ask me or ask in the Opera IRC channel on OperaNet.

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