Contacts ico problem

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

You might need to try doing it by directly editing operaprefs.ini (with Opera closed, back it up first!)
Look for the line beginning "Button Set={SmallPreferences}skin/..." and change it to -
Button Set=C:\Users\eeeemc\Dropbox\DellIn~1\OperaE~1\OperaS~1\standard_skin.zip

[emc]

emc last edited by

Thanks Dave, I have followed the tutor from years ago Opera Forum

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1586502&t=1355312675&page=1#comment13532692

You extract the skin, add/remove/replace the icons that are in the "contacts" folder, edit skin.ini

and change the ContactN lines towards the bottom to point to the new icon filenames,

edit the title of the skin at the top of skin.ini, save, zip up skin.ini and all the folders next to it into a zip file,

place the zip file in the "skin" directory in your Opera roaming profile directory, start opera and select your customized skin

Still not working....... is there any special tricks I should pay more attention to on above ?

thank you very much.
edmond.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

You say it's not working, do you mean that your changes are not being seen, or is the new skin file not working at all?
If it isn't working at all, make absolutely sure that the program you're using to extract the files and then re-compress them is preserving the original folder structure exactly.
I've done this several times myself using WinZip, which does seem to do it correctly by default.

[emc]

emc last edited by

Thank you Dave !

That could be at least one thing wrong during I made it so it does not work, it does not work means when I'm in contact chosing any of my contacts , right click, properties , chose image.

Those are the default icon without changing to my own custom set

I also have changed these

So that I really don't know where cause the error.

Same as you, I used to make this work & my M2 mail panel able to shown correctly my own setof contacts icon in the mailing list.

Dave, do you know where to download may be Portable Winzip ?

Thank you very much.
edmond.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

There's a link to the WinZip portabe version here.
I'm afraid that I can't immediately see why what you've done isn't working as it should be.

[emc]

emc last edited by

Hi Dave,

I use also winzip to make zip/unzip & contact icons still not change to my custom one & I do not see my custom skin is there I can select ( although I can placed it in the skin folder )

I should be pretty straight in changing / customizing a contact icon ..........

It concern only unzip , add a 16x16 pixel .png in contact folder , modify the line in skin.ini , zip back.........

I used to done it okay but it is frustrate this time I spent just more than an hour still not able to make it correctly.

Thank you very much.
Edmond.

[emc]

emc last edited by

Icon 05 is my custom contact icon.......

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

The most common error with editing skins was in recompressing the file. You have to start inside the folder that has skin.ini in it, select all, and zip it including folders. Do not compress the folder itself; skin.ini has to be in the root of archive.

[emc]

emc last edited by

You're super sgunhouse , you made the point and I carefully made the re-compress and I can see my custom icon now.....

1. Why in Skin name is not change as You can see 2 same time Opera standard.

2. I changed already in the skin.ini total name to Opera Custom... and I consider this new name reflect in above 1. the Skin UI

3. The Icon must be 32bit ? How I can make it super SHARP in mail panel ?

4. I also need to make lots of label icon, do you have website you can instrduce me to visit so that I can learn making label icon ?

Thanks again sgunhouse you always provide good hints !

Edmond.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I'm not sure what the line "Name String Code=" is in your skin.ini.
Mine doesn't have that.
Try deleting it or commenting it out, it may be overriding your custom name.

[emc]

emc last edited by

I'm not sure what the line "Name String Code=" is in your skin.ini.

Fixed it Dave........... although I did not know what was the key things remedy the issue..............

I do not know nor knowledge of Name String Code.....

Thank you in any way !!

Do you have may be other website for me I can learn to build extra Label icons ?

Thanks
edmmond.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I use GConvert Icon Editor to make icons from image files, it's very good but isn't a free program.
There may be free equivalents that will do the same.
I don't know of any websites that allow you to do it online, I assume you've searched?

[tecogyan]

tecogyan last edited by

thank you so much