Future Features for Opera
Tuesday, 10. November 2009, 20:29:53
The last piece of software I tried to get rid of (and then I didnt, and the reason is number two below) is Microsoft Outlook 2007.
Don't get me wrong, I was never against Microsoft. Most people are. I'm not. They've done a bunch of ugly, dirty things but they did one thing right. They turned pc's into stupid proof machines so that every stupid one of us can have a machine in our homes.
Anyways my post is about new features that I want to see in the future versions of Opera and the following is my list:
1. The Mail client is just BRILLIANT. However, it needs some tweaking. For starters, the Contacts manager could do with a little bit more versatility. For example, why am I not able to enter a mobile phone number? What happens when someone has more than one phone numbers? It's not hard (or so I think) to allow the user to enter more values by pressing on a '+' button or something.
2. Okay the coOpera piece of software does work. I tried it and it produced an error free list of my contacts taken from a CSV file that Outlook exported and created an ADR file that Opera imported. That's just awesome and it nearly made me get rid of Outlook altogether. However, (and that's a big huge however) I cant get rid of Outlook unless I have a piece of software to allow me to import my PST and OST files into Opera Mail as well! Now, that'd be just awesome, if I could just have something like that, everything would be so much simpler.
3. Okay the Contacts screen is rather inexplicably limited to a view that does not show all the values of a contact. I wouldnt want to see a contact's entire address there in the listing but why not be able to see all their phone numbers, or their nickname? Specially since the program wont allow mobile phone numbers for example, I'm already using the FAX field in order to store mobile phone numbers. It'd be nice if I could just be able to see those in the listing.
Well, those are my three first so that I can stop using Outlook. I think all the other features work just fine. One more feature (although much of an overkill but hey, why not) is to be able to have xobni functionality built-into Opera Mail. I loved the xobni plug in for Outlook, it's just amazing.








