Opera Wish List
This is a page to keep track of any wishlist items for future versions of Opera. This is NOT an official wish list, use either the wish list forum or the wishlist. Also, you can enter an enhancement request in the Opera bug-tracker. This page is intended to collate the most useful wishes so one can see them all at one. It is divided into sections for how hard each wish is to implement. If you want to add a wish, just edit the page (see FormattingRules to see how to format the text). Please try to be realistic and courteous to others.
WISHES:
Small
- CORE: Allow multiple search terms for search.ini, e.g. %s1 %s2 etc. for each entry seperated by spaces. That allows multiple entry search engines to work. Keep %s to mean all entered text so compatibility with previous versions will be retained.
- UI: Cycle pages should seperate 'without showing list' for BOTH 'recently used order' and 'page bar order' - so a user can use a mouse gesture using both ways without incuring the page-list popup.
- UI: Ability to choose, when closing a page, to go to the next one in page bar order or the last one used.
- External: Integration into Windows XP set program access and defaults.
- UI/CORE: Refresh options for hotlist panels.
- UI: Show URLs in the Links and History panels.
- UI: 'Closed' parent in the Window Panel that you could expand to list the closed window list
- UI: Keep history of search words in dropdown box for e.g. quick find and the search fields.
- UI: Customizable "Save to >" menu that allows to download a page/file to predefined folders.
- M2: mark message as "Not spam" without adding sender as contact.
- M2: Active threads working for newsgroups as well as mail.
- M2: support for x-noarchive for usenet postings
- M2: ability to add alternative email addresses that aren't sent to (ie for complete contact email history)
- M2: pressing E on an email sent by the user will bring up other emails to/from the recipient
- M2: ability to remove > at the beginning of selected lines
- M2: QUICK REPLY: checkbox to toggle appending quote of original email
- UI: Three pane 'Manage Notes' dialog.
- Opera6.ini has an [Environment Variable] section (first one processed) where one could SET the values of environment variables.
- UI: Disable the error messages, eg. the Mail errors.
- CORE: Create a Profile Manager.
- M2: Ability to use contacts in filter rules.
Medium
- UI: "Always on Top" option for windows. The window would optional go over the browser Main Bar. Useful to keep a small popup with useful information to quickly refer to.
- CORE: Per-server settings
- Bookmarks: Use multiple bookmark files.
- UI: Sticky searches for bookmarks organisation (see StickySearches for more details).
- UI: More user defined mouse customisation (left/middle/right, scrollwhell & +key combinations)
- UI: Ability to add buttons/fields etc to the menu-bar, so it becomes like all the other UI bars in Opera. This would save UI space.
- UI: Menu editor
- M2: "Real" M2 filters (support actions other than just move to folder).
- UI: Universal drag + drop for text (within Opera's windows/UI elements, to desktop, other apps etc.).
- UI: Wrappable Page/Personal bar (better than the current extender).
- UI: Auto hiding of toolbars, including the hotlist. Displays when on mouse over.
- Forms: Autocomplete in Form Fields.
- Display: Fit to window, rotate and precaching for images in slideshow mode.
- CORE: Show partial source: only show the source for the highlighted part of a page.
- M2: Notification in system tray.
- UI: Auto-Complete address bar with items in Bookmarks. (IE. To go to Hotmail, I type 'hot' and the address bar completes it with 'mail.com').
- M2: improved message threading. Suggestion : Option / Toggle to take subject line into account to join messages in threads.
- M2: possibility to store IMAP messages locally.
- M2: joining and decoding of multi-message encoded binary postings.
- M2: possibility (config option) to auto-extract binaries from the main db to a folder, inserting a local link(s) pointing to the file(s). Batch option to do this on entire view or selected mails. Possible reverse option to join them back in for export/transport.
- M2: Full mail reindexing option available from menu. M2 recovery options in case of index and/or storage file corruption.
- M2: 'Archive Read mode' : view and search exported message archive files in Unix MBX format in read-only mode without impacting master DB (but allows copying in of messages/contacts)
- Core: Auto merging of .ini files (keyboad,mouse,menu,toolbar configs) with user prompts on conflicts.
- M2: Support *bold*, _underline_ and /italics/
- Bookmarks: Allow the automatic conversion of bookmarks between Opera7 and I.E 6.x.
- UI: Flexible toolbars - Allow IE-style freedom of arrangement of toolbars. For example, it's counter-intuitive to have the Personal Bar on top of the Page Bar, imo.
Medium-Large
- UI/CORE: Multicolor Highlight search words (like Google toolbar), with single box for both web search and find-in-page search.
- UI/CORE: Be able to use a highlight-pen to select text on a page - each highlighted entry will be saved to a buffer. That buffer can then be saved to a note or copied to clipboard.
- CORE: Save pages including all referenced objects in single-file format.
- CORE: Allow copying with or without formatting
- UI: PhotoShop-style "Magnifying glass" tool for zooming into pages
- M2: Option to use seperate Mail DB's per account to allow even better handling of huge message bases.
- SEARCHING: Editable Super Search(es), not just Search Engine 1 + Search Engine 2.
- DISPLAY: "Outline" mode, allowing to collapse sections of page (e.g. a headline and the following text)
- Core: Ability to select multiple groups of text (ctrl+drag)
- CORE: Support for CSS3 Selectors
- Bookmarks: Allow the type colour and style of each bookmark to be set.
- CORE: Command that opens the linked/used CSS file - if there is any (like "View [document|frame] source" that opens the source HTML file) (UPDATE: work-around: create button with 'Go to link element, "stylesheet"' & View source)
- CORE: mathML support
- CORE: full CSS3 support as one of the first browsers (mozilla and safari have already implemented much of CSS3)
Large
(Might require a lot of reworking current code)
- CORE: API for extensions
- IM: implement Jabber
- Calendar / Time manager / PIM
Future Direction
(General direction you want to see Opera Software go towards)
- More speed for 30+ opened pages
- More focus on professional users: absolute compatibility with WebApps?
- More focus on professional users: make M2 useful for professionals (this includes better filtering as well as HTML e-mail)
- Palm OS Verison
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