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My Wish-List

Fairly sure that "grouped" wish-lists aren't really preferred, especially ones of this length, but it is a "Wish List" not Single Feature Request, so if this gets Locked, so be it. I'll try and search for related/duplicate ones and add my "+1's" to them.

I'm intentionally excluding requests like "support for this, that, and the other" and also "faster this, that, and the other" requests, as those are pretty much a given, for the most part it's just usability requests, tried to list them in easiest to hardest to implement.

Opera:
● 1) Minimize and/or Close to Systray. (Related Topic and Another)
● 2A) Clean-Up On Interval, same as on shutdown, but happens when the browser is still open, every 1, 6, 12, 24 hours etc, deletes what it can (ie: not stuff for open pages)
● 2B) Clean-Up On Tab Close, delete all data used by tab since it was created. (Optional, or Per-Site basis, as it could cause slowdown)
● 3) Customizable UserAgent Strings (excluding the main Opera one)
● 4) A "Packaged" export/import settings option, where you can specify which items/data you want to export, then it creates a zipped file, same on import, shows a dialog so you can import all, or only the ones you select.
● 5) A Plugin "Manager", to add/remove plugins and paths (I know that's possibly in opera:config), or at least a Plugin Blacklist.
● 6A) Convert (non-necessary) Hex values to plain text (on 'Enter' or 'Go') in address bar, ie: %31 = 1, %41 = A, etc.
● 6B) Allow unicode text in the address bar, for instance Russian chars, become ????? unless you use Hex values.
● 7) A Link/Button to "opera:config" from the Preferences (Dialog) - Advanced, newer users will never find it the "hard way".
● 8) "Menu Editor", simple drag&drop, one list being current items, the other being all items, with an "Add" and an "Edit" which would be (easier to make if it was) more advanced, ie: manually type in commands, but a drop down list of commands would be great too.
● 9) Ability to edit keystroke/inputs that use Keyboard+Mouse, ie: Ctrl+Mouse Wheel
● 10) A "Speed Dials" Menu Item (similar to Internal Feeds List) thats the first item in the "Bookmarks" menu, or a Drop-Down button like Top 10.
● 11) "Warn On Exit", especially since there is M2 and Unite, which you may forget about, but want on permanently.
● 12) Opera.exe /systray options, to start Opera with Systray Icon only, no main Window.
● 13) Find & Replace, at least for Source Viewer, or if it can somehow search only input boxes (ie: the "Reply" box here)... does it already exist somewhere? (Related Topic and Another)
● 14) "Fullscreen" with modes, possibly an option on Appearance - Toolbars "Show in Fullscreen", and/or Auto-Hide toolbars in fullscreen, ie: Fullscreen
● 15) A "Delete Item" for Addressbar Drop-Down items, Shift+Del, Ctrl+Del, something... or a context menu, for Delete, Bookmark, Open with, Find in History, etc. (Related Topic)
● 16) "Copy HTML" in right-click context menu. (Related Topic)
● 17) "Lock Tab" with options, ie: "Lock Navigation", "Warn On Exit" (similar to if a download is in progress), possibly a "Stop Execution", so when a tab is locked, no scripts are allowed to run, and/or no user input is allowed. (Related Topic)
● 18A) Visual/Editable Session loading, for instance a "Speed Dial" of sorts when you open a session, that shows a thumbnail of the sites, then you can [X] close them, and an "Open Session" button at the bottom. (Related Topic)
● 18B) Just a button in the "Manage Sessions" dialog, for "Edit" that shows a list of sites in the session, then Add/Remove buttons.
● 19) Scrollable tabs, a button on each end (or top/bottom) click to scroll one tab over, click and hold (or Shift+Click) to scroll the next X (however many the tab bar fits) amount of tabs.
● 20) Skinnable Titlebar, or a "No Titlebar" option (like fullscreen, but with all the normal controls still) like this. (Related Topic)

UI Buttons:
● 1) Hide Opera
● 2) Minimize, Maximize/Restore, Close (I mean really, why aren't they there?)
● 3) Open/Close DragonFly
● 4) Previous Tab & Next Tab
● 5) Duplicate Tab (or just make Shift+Enter in the addressbar work when it's the same URL)
● 6) Show Site Security/Information
● 7) "Pop-Ups" mode button, (Show All, Background, Block Unwanted, Block All)
● 8) Site Navigation
● 9) Clear Private Data or a drop-down button with:
Clear Cache
Clear History
Clear Typed History etc.
● 10) Manage Cookies

Changes to UI Buttons:
● 1) "Clock": cycle between "Time", "Date" and "Date & Time" when clicked, like the "Identify As..." button, or at least a tooltip showing the date.

Appearance Dialog:
Skins:
● 1) "Custom Color" for Skin Color Scheme in the Skin dialog.
● 2) Skin Information (Version, Author, etc from [Info] in Skin.ini)
● 3) "Update Skin" in Skin dialog, either by information from [Info] in Skin.ini, or Opera remembering skin URLs when downloaded.

Buttons:
● 1) Scrollable "My Buttons" area.
● 2) Command Previews On Hover (for "My Buttons") in Status Bar, or it's own preview area.
● 3) "Create Button" for My Buttons (generic: select Icon, type in command, possibly with drop-down list like Keystroke editor)

Content Blocker: (Related Topic)
● 1) A more advanced content blocker, block elements, block scripts by name/id, or even the ability to block certain functions in JavaScript, etc.
● 2) "Block Item" in the main Right-Click context menu, instead of having to enter "Block Content" mode.
● 3) Support for ? (single character) and # (single digit) wildcards. (ie: http://*/ads#/* or http://www.???.site.com)

UI Buttons:
● 1) Enable/Disable Content Blocker
● 2) (Show) Blocked Content
● 3) Enter/Exit Content Block Mode

Bookmarks:
● 1) Right-Click Context menu for items in main Bookmark menu (instead of having to open Manager, or Panel). (Related Topic)

Download: (Related Topic)
● 1) Download Que, ie: "Allow X Downloads At A Time" when they complete, if there are any in queue they start.
● 2) The ability to select/deselect files within a torrent, or at least the ability to see what files the torrent contains before download begins.
● 3) Adjustable limits (UL/DL) for Torrents while download in progress (or DL limit for normal downloads).
● 4) "Scan With...(Virus Scanner)" Option when download completes (redundant with most scanners now, but not all)

Panels:
● 1) A Global "Empty Trash", to empty all "Trash" bins for all panels.
● 2) An Option to do that on exit in Preferences - Advanced - History.

Contacts:
● 1) Either a panel like "Notes" where you can select a contact, then information about that contact appears in the sub-panel, or an expandable tree, showing common sub-items for the contact (Address(es), Homepage, Notes, etc) Mainly for easy access, ie: copy/paste information (I know it shows the info in the tooltips already)

Links:
● 1) Some form of organization. ie: Grouping by "Internal (same domain)/External (another domain)", what type it is ("Webpage", "File"), or possibly by container/div.

Mail & Feeds:
● 1) Folders to group Feeds (Related Topic and Another)
● 2A) "Check Feeds" in the right-click context menu inside Mail Panel (same as selecting "Feeds" and pressing F5) or A checkable option under the "Check/Send" button to include/exclude Feeds or the ability to tie feeds to an e-mail account, so that it updates when it automatically checks the mail account, on top of, or instead of the specified interval for the individual feeds.
● 2B) A Global variable for Update Interval on feeds, ie: "Apply To All".
● 3) Import & Export support for "Microsoft Outlook" (not just Outlook Express), and "Windows Mail".
● 4) Support for Folders in POP accounts (not sure if this is "Standardized" so may not be possible)
● 5) Drag&Drop to organize sections/folders (seems that it wants to, but wont)

UI Buttons:
● 1) A Feeds Button.

Opera:* Pages:
● 1) "opera:cache" shows everything that's in the cache folder, always, not just when it feels like it.
● 2) "opera:cache" with some form of figuring out what files are what, like a Type column. (Related Topic)
● 3) "opera:plugins" shows version information.
● 4) "opera:config" with tooltip descriptions.

UI Buttons:
About
Cache
Config
Debug
History
History Search
Plugins

Site Preferences: (Dialog)
● 1) "Zoom" under "Content" or "Display" tab. (Related Topic and Indirectly Related Topic)
● 2) Selectable UserJS, ie: "select Folder" but then a listbox of found scripts with Enable/Disable options.
● 3A) Multiple Cache Folders, ie: specify which cache of X amount (perhaps only 2) of cache's, so one cache can be "cleaned" the other not, or one "public" one "private". (Partially Related Topic)
● 3B) Or the ability to enable/disable (include/exclude from) "Delete Data/Clear History" on a per-site basis.

Source Viewer:
● 1) Line Numbering (preferably with Column too, but not as necessary) (Related Topic)
● 2) "Find in Page" should be on the toolbar by default (and should work properly)
● 3) It's own Context Menu (especially since most are disabled/invalid with the default one)
● 4) Basic color scheme for commands/variables/etc. ie: <a href="url">Title</a>

Speed Dial:
● 1) A "Rows" and "Columns" numeric up/down so users can specify the amount of dials. (Related Topic)
● 2A) "Random" images for background, ie: Specify folder of images, then specify interval between changes, possibly with a "Base Time", ie: 12:00 then each interval after that time, so users could specify 24 hours, then specify 5:00PM, or specify every hour, based on 00:30 minutes, so it changes every hour but on the half-hours. (Related Topic)
● 2B) And/or the ability to specify a webpage as the background, with an update interval much like "Active Desktop" but perhaps without the ability to "use" the site.
● 3) "Set" (one time, browse for file) or "specify" (input box to URL) for Speed Dials Image (in context menu, or "Edit" dialog) to replace the default image of the website.
● 4) Drag&Drop floating Dials, so they can be arranged in a custom layout, like desktop icons. Or a "Grid" setting, like a grid of 5x5, but with only 9 Speed Dials, so you can drag&drop like you can already, but with completely "blank" dial spaces. (possible with some skins, or manually editing a skin).
● 5) Multiple webpages/sites per dial, with a "Previous" and "Next" button on either side. For instance grouping sub-pages of a domain, limited to say 3 pages/sites (easier to make, control and update), optionally an "Auto-Cycle" to display the different sites on an interval, or on mouse-over. (Semi-Related Topic)
● 6) "Pages" of Speed Dials, instead of squishing them all onto the same one. Specify an amount per-page (like a search engine) then if there is more dials than that, it creates another "page", then either Previous/Next page buttons, or maybe a scroll, like Mouse Gestures, hold left-mouse in empty area, move left/right.

UI Buttons:
● 1) Show/Hide Speed Dial

System Tray:
● 1) "Show/Hide" Opera on double-click Systray Icon, ie: double-click = "Show", double-click again = "Hide" (if windows visible).
● 2) Selective "Show/Hide", ie: a sub-menu with a list of the (parent) windows currently open, if window visible, clicking it hides it, if not, clicking it shows that window only, not all windows.

Unite: (Related Topic)
● 1) Application Version, Author, and Description info in "Properties" dialog, or an "Information" dialog.
● 2) Some form of "Update Application" (guess that would also require some coding on opera.com)
● 3) "Disable Unite" in the pop-up context menu, instead of Configure - Disable

UI Buttons:
● 1) Enable/Disable Unite

Widgets: (Related Topic)
● 1) Some form of Widget Manager inside Opera.
● 2) Install them to Opera/Widgets on the Start Menu (haven't tested external widgets with Linux yet)
● 3) The ability to open Widgets in their own Tab.
● 4) A tab similar to Speed Dial, that can hold multiple widgets.
● 5A) The ability to "Dock" a widget into the Tab/Page bar (when Visual Tabs enabled)
● 5B) Dock/Create a widget in it's own Panel

If Widgets remain completely external to Opera, then:
● 1) A Widget manager that runs in the systray, and shows a list of running widgets and/or all installed widgets, with the ability to start/show/close the widgets. (and thus, don't show running widgets in Taskbar unless specified to)
● 2) If there is no Widget Manager, then a systray icon for each widget that simply has "Show/Hide" and "Close" menu items, optionally the "Always On Top", and "Transparency" or Configure/Settings if the Widget has that option.

Apologies if some of the buttons don't work.

Bug Fixes:
● 1) Opera still loads the last closed tab when it re-opens sometimes.
● 2) Source Viewer "Scroll Up" rendering (jerky behavior unlike Scroll Down)
● 3) Mail Checking: (this might be fixable on my end) When Opera is minimized to taskbar, or to Systray, and it's unable to "Authenticate" or another Mail related error occurs, I do not want it to open the entire window, or even show the dialog until I open the main window again (major annoyance in fullscreen applications, or when doing any serious work in another application), but I do not want to disable the dialog from showing.
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