July 21, 2009 at 10:38 pmGlass row of tabs in Opera
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Since the advent of Google Chrome, many small details in the appearance of browsers have attracted my attention. One of them was the loss of the window title and the use of a glass bar with tabs, which fits very well in the style of Vista / Win7 Aero.
Safari 4 recently copied this format too.
And finally, we got to the opera ...
I have been using Opera for more than 6 years, and I am impressed with the achievements in the latest builds. But I (and others) would like to see glass windows in Opera 10, but with so many new features, it does not seem to me that Aero will be available for the finale (in fact, it was promised to Opera 11).
Here is the look of the new skin developed by John Hicks : The
new skin has become very beautiful, and as AntRepin noted, it could be even better if I used the glass style in the tab bar.
Therefore, I decided to hack into the Opera and see if it is possible to enable transparency ... And to my surprise, I got it (the solution is not perfect, since it is only a hack made in a couple of hours), with a very good result:
Moreover, I decided to combine this hack with my previous hack removing the title bar. Here's what I got:
Hopefully ... I hope that it will be implemented very soon by the Opera development team.
For those who would like to see the results live, I posted them on Rapidshare and MediaFire:
Download hack for Opera (Rapidshare)
Download hack for Opera (MediaFire)
This is a modified skin (with a black background of the tab bar that will be replaced with glass after the hack). You need to copy it to the Path \ To \ Opera \ Skin \ folder and select Tools -> Appearance from the menu ...
After that, you need to run the OperaAero.exe program (it will create a tray icon with which you can close it).
To remove the window title bar, put windowstyle.exe directly in the root of the D: \ drive, then open buttons.html in Opera and click on the links to add window control buttons to the toolbar.
Note: Actually, the original article said “to the root of the C: \ drive”, but the path D: \ windowstyle.exe is hardcoded in the buttons.html file. I think that nothing bad will happen if you correct it at your convenience and place the file there.
If you did everything right, you can enjoy the result.
This should also work with a row of tabs located at the bottom or left and right, although the location on the left and right looks awful with this hack.
And finally, my congratulations to the Opera team for the great work that has done Opera for a long time as my favorite browser!
Safari 4 recently copied this format too.
And finally, we got to the opera ...
I have been using Opera for more than 6 years, and I am impressed with the achievements in the latest builds. But I (and others) would like to see glass windows in Opera 10, but with so many new features, it does not seem to me that Aero will be available for the finale (in fact, it was promised to Opera 11).
Here is the look of the new skin developed by John Hicks : The
new skin has become very beautiful, and as AntRepin noted, it could be even better if I used the glass style in the tab bar.
Therefore, I decided to hack into the Opera and see if it is possible to enable transparency ... And to my surprise, I got it (the solution is not perfect, since it is only a hack made in a couple of hours), with a very good result:
Moreover, I decided to combine this hack with my previous hack removing the title bar. Here's what I got:
Hopefully ... I hope that it will be implemented very soon by the Opera development team.
For those who would like to see the results live, I posted them on Rapidshare and MediaFire:
Download hack for Opera (Rapidshare)
Download hack for Opera (MediaFire)
This is a modified skin (with a black background of the tab bar that will be replaced with glass after the hack). You need to copy it to the Path \ To \ Opera \ Skin \ folder and select Tools -> Appearance from the menu ...
After that, you need to run the OperaAero.exe program (it will create a tray icon with which you can close it).
To remove the window title bar, put windowstyle.exe directly in the root of the D: \ drive, then open buttons.html in Opera and click on the links to add window control buttons to the toolbar.
Note: Actually, the original article said “to the root of the C: \ drive”, but the path D: \ windowstyle.exe is hardcoded in the buttons.html file. I think that nothing bad will happen if you correct it at your convenience and place the file there.
If you did everything right, you can enjoy the result.
This should also work with a row of tabs located at the bottom or left and right, although the location on the left and right looks awful with this hack.
And finally, my congratulations to the Opera team for the great work that has done Opera for a long time as my favorite browser!