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Custom "Personal Bar" icon

Custom "Personal Bar" icon
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:39:57 -040
I use the personal bar for various Javascript bookmarklets such as Post to  
Del.icio.us, E-Mail This, and TinyURL. Since they are all Javascript, they  
do not have a favicon. My personal bar looks like this:

[Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]...  
[Icon]... [Icon]...

As you can see, it's not very easy to find the bookmarklet I want when  
they all have the default icon and no text. I have to hover over each one  
to find what I'm looking for. If I could assign my own icon to them from  
file, I could quickly find the one I want at any time.
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Re: Custom "Personal Bar" icon
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:09:05 +010
Op Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:39:57 +0100 schreef AbbydonKrafts  
<see.my.sig@notvalid.nul>:

> I use the personal bar for various Javascript bookmarklets such as Post  
> to Del.icio.us, E-Mail This, and TinyURL. Since they are all Javascript,  
> they do not have a favicon. My personal bar looks like this:
>
> [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]...  
> [Icon]... [Icon]...
>
> As you can see, it's not very easy to find the bookmarklet I want when  
> they all have the default icon and no text. I have to hover over each  
> one to find what I'm looking for. If I could assign my own icon to them  
> from file, I could quickly find the one I want at any time.

It should be possible to edit the bookmarks file directly in a text  
editor, and add/change ICONFILE entries for specific bookmarks:

	ICONFILE=bookmarklet-one.png

See 'Help > About Opera' to learn the location of the bookmarks file. The  
'iconfile' values should point to icon image files in the 'images' folder  
under your profile folder. I haven't tried this myself though.

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                                                      Rijk van Geijtenbeek
                                    Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA
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Re: Custom "Personal Bar" icon
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:11:42 +130
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:39:57 +1300, AbbydonKrafts  
<see.my.sig@notvalid.nul> wrote:

> I use the personal bar for various Javascript bookmarklets such as Post  
> to Del.icio.us, E-Mail This, and TinyURL. Since they are all Javascript,  
> they do not have a favicon. My personal bar looks like this:
>
> [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]... [Icon]...  
> [Icon]... [Icon]...
>
> As you can see, it's not very easy to find the bookmarklet I want when  
> they all have the default icon and no text. I have to hover over each  
> one to find what I'm looking for. If I could assign my own icon to them  
> from file, I could quickly find the one I want at any time.

Do you have a wide screen? My workaround was to put the personal bar on  
the right. It helps keep lines of text on fluid web pages to a good  
readable length.
The personal bar also has options like show extender menu, but that  
relegates some shortcuts to needing an extra click.


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Re: Custom "Personal Bar" icon
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:00:03 -040
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:11:42 -0400, Richard Grevers  
<newsreply8@dramatic.co.nz> wrote:

> Do you have a wide screen? My workaround was to put the personal bar on  
> the right. It helps keep lines of text on fluid web pages to a good  
> readable length.
> The personal bar also has options like show extender menu, but that  
> relegates some shortcuts to needing an extra click.

Unfortunately, no. My display at work is 1280x1024 and at home it's  
1152x864 (CRT limitation).

I looked for a way to make folders like the Opera one as that would be a  
nice option, but I don't see that as a possibility, either.

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