Releated with contacts

Contact panel is quite old part of Opera. It hasn't changed for 5 years. People that are using mail client need advanced contact panel.

1- Synchronizations with web based contact databases.
Web applications are the part of the life. People are more online than past. They use web applications rather than native apps. Google Contacts is good example. If mail client's contacts can be synchronized with such applications, people benefit from it. Opera can consider provide an API for that purpose.

2- More importation tools.
Opera has be able to import only own contact. There is a web site to convert other contact list to Opera contact's format. This web site is prepared by an Opera employee. It should be integrated with Opera.

3- Contacts on the web.
Opera Link has great opportunity to access all information everywhere but lack of contact synchronizations. People need to access their contacts on the web. To satisfy people Opera can join My Opera Mail's contacts with Browser contacts. As a result of that, users will satisfy and Opera will have a great product in terms of mail client.

If you have some ideas, please feel free to share your ideas concern contact on Opera.

I have some small requests too

- A way to add a email contact to the folders, because this option only have when I use the right button on an email in the list. In email message, when I click on the contact, don't appear that option to add the contact for folders, only add simply. And an option to create a folder and move the contact for it.

-I see, for example, when I add a contact from Opera Chat or from email list, you can add the contact to the folders, but if you note, only appear the contacts which have a email added in their properties. Had to appear all the added contacts, having emails or not.

Speaking of 'Contacts' requests, I've got a some suggestions, too:

1) Show Photos in Contacts: Pictures (photos of users) that one assigns in a contact's Properties-Images tab don't seem to appear anywhere except in the contact's properties, when one opens it for some purpose. If one opens Contacts by clicking on the top Tools menu, then 'Contacts', a new tab is opened with 4 columns: Name (of folders), Name (of contacts), Email address, and Phone. There is a lot of white space on my screen, as my folder names are not very long, and the Phone column is much wider than needed. I suggest adding a fifth column, or perhaps a pop-up window of some sort, so that when one highlights a contact, his/her picture automatically shows up, and perhaps a summary of some of the information in the properties tabs, e.g., extra email addresses and chat nicknames. This would allow a user to see the picture of the contact being selected along with relevant information, without having to open Properties, just by moving the cursor from contact to contact.

2) Make it Easier to Select a Photo: Being new to Opera, I've had to figure out several things that were not obvious to me at first sight. I was very surprised when I opened a contact's properties, discovered a field in which a file could be referenced to show an image, and found no easy way to browse my drive for images I have saved specifically for that purpose. I can't even remember how I figured what to put in the 'Picture URL' field, but recall searching the web for answers. Somehow, I figured out that I must put something like the following in that field:

This is not 'intuitively obvious' to me. Whenever I need to add another contact's photo, I first go to one that has a photo assigned, and copy the URL, then paste it into the 'Picture URL' field, and modify the picture's file name from 'Joe' to 'Bill', etc. I'm really surprised that all this is necessary, when I know exactly where on disk the photo is located, and could browse for it easily.

3) Allow Selection of an Iconized Photo if a Photo Has Been Assigned: I'd like to have meaningful icons to assign to many of my contacts, so that they show up in the list of contacts (where I can't see their photos unless I open contact Properties). There are a limited number of icons to choose from in the drop-down list, and I have many, many contacts. It's true that not all need icons, but the choices given don't always associate well with the selected contact. If one had a contact's photo, and it were possible for Opera to 'iconize' that photo, then the drop-down list of icons could have one additional choice, 'Iconized Photo'. Selecting that choice would show a small picture of the photo one selected in the 'Picture URL' field (or, if no photo were assigned, a stock icon of some sort).

Thanks for considering these suggestions.

hey @asiruits

1) I loved that one, kinda what I was thinking, and it'd make the contacts look more beautiful and useful.