It would be cool if Opera's IRC client had these features

Hello, all.

There's been a couple really small things that have been bugging me about Opera's integrated IRC client.

I can't find a way to unbold the words I send or change the interface's font. AFAIK there's also no way to make each nick a different color.

The last thing and arguably the most annoying is that tab completion for nicks completes in alphabetical order. In most dedicated IRC clients like irssi it bumps the most recently-active nick to be the first to tab-complete. It's much nicer.
For example, say you are in a room with four users: Andres, A_Bufort, A_Crawford, A_dbelange and A_Pfrank.

Andres, A_Bufort and A_dbelange are idling and have not spoken since you joined.

A_Crawford spoke a few minutes ago but A_Pfrank has said stuff since than.

Suppose you wanted to reply to something A_Pfrank has said. If you were using Irssi or Xchat or WeChat or whatever and you typed 'A', it would tab complete first to A_Pfrank, then to A_Crawford before starting an alphabetical list of the other nicks: Andres, A_Bufort, A_dbelange.

Opera, though, will have to cycle through all the nicks, regardless of activity before reaching A_Pfrank. It would go: Andres, A_Bufort, A_Crawford, A_dbelange, A_Pfrank

I'm fairly new to Opera though so it could be that I just haven't burrowed around in the settings enough to see options for this stuff.
Thanks!

I think there's no solution (yet) for the tab completion behavior...
About changing the interface, take a look at http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/operaStyles/ and http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/operaStyles/extraChatStyles.html

And what about sound alert on HL, unicode input (or whichever is the one that has all the characters), overall customization without having to dig through the files, interaction with names on the chat window, not just the nick list... come on, it looks as if the client hasn't changed since the first release