Testing the unknown

Jup, you read that right. I, the great Opera fanboy (k, we all know there is no better browser around) am slowly getting annoyed of the way the development of opera goes. Here's a list:

1. Long-standing issues and simple improvements don't get implemented although they would really much contribute to a better overall usability (like [Ctrl]+[Tab] also when only 1 tab is left, Please restore the star in the address bar (hell, it was allready there), Opera and authenticating with a Chip-card, and so on)
2. Instead new features (widgets, unite) get implemented where a different solution - and a good solution that is - allready exists (like XAMPP, imo damn simple to use). Note that for these features also other long-standing wishes would be an improvement (like "closing opera to tray" and so on - see My 2 Cents on Opera's Widgets)
3. Skin issues: There is still no qt4 skin for linux x64 - or gtk would be even more appreciated. Oh, and guess who does not care about my font settings for the UI that are est in qtconfig?
4. Fx-Style shortcuts: damn, Ctrl+N for a new tab was great and I don't get it why this had to change. Also Ctrl-N means (in normal hotkey-terms) "new document" and not "new window". As I wrote in a comment on the 100-papercuts-series (great initiative imho) it should be sthg like:
   
5. Ctrl + N = new Document: look up user prefs if he/she wants to use tabs or not (which in apps that use tabs should default to "yes")
6. Ctrl + T = Allways open new tab (overriding user prefs)
7. Ctrl + Shift + N = Allways open new window (as shift points to the next-higher structure: document -> window)

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K, I think I'm done with my friday-morning-rant (hey, I should make a series ). In short what I want is something like the 100-papercuts that ubuntu currently does for opera so all those small, long-standing bugs finally get some attention and (hopefully) get fixed). I am sure that such an initiative could also work with closed-source apps like opera, as there have been a number of community-driven stuff in the past (like "Ask John"). If this selection process gets merged with a tracker for these bugs (nothing big, just a table with bug description & status) we are golden.


Edit: Way, the desktop team just released their first qt4 build on x64. And I it.

So, finally, I started a blog. In this blog I will mostly write about my studies at the local University of Applied Science (the branch is Communications and Simulations Engineering) and - of course - Opera-related issues that hit me as worth mentioning. So now let's talk about Opera's Widget engine.

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