Today the Opera Desktop Team released improvements to the new skin which was released only yesterday! The improvements come from an amazing 300+ posts by users like you and me in just 24 hours. What makes that even more incredible is that this is a beta and snapshot blog, so it’s typically just a small group of people who participate…but not this time!
The new skin has brought the Desktop Team a great deal of attention! If you have a digg account then you should help digg this!
http://digg.com/software/Opera_s_new_modern_UI
The improvements to the skin are aimed at correcting issues that were reported by the majority of the visitors yesterday. More improvements will come shortly (maybe Monday!), but for now the changelog consists of the following:
- 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
To use Opera with the new improvements and test them out, you can go to the latest post or you can use the links I’ve posted below for you:
If you find a bug or an improvement to the skin or this build then help us all out by posting it here:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/06/06/turtle-wax
This post is an update to the initial Opera 9.5 skin improvements post from yesterday. To read more about this, you should read the post from yesterday.