[Opera-Linux] Scroll is Pan (Opera 9.5)

[Roberto Salles]

 Hello everyone!

 First congratulations Opera developers! I'm a happy Opera user
since 5.x, even when I cannot be using my OS of choice, as now. Thanks
so much for your hard work.

 I was afraid of trying the recent alfa release but a single new
feature I read about made me try it: the one unlockable with "Scroll is
Pan". My dreams were finally comming true!

 It's so nice to have this feature.

 I suggested exactly that about one year and a half ago[1] and the only
problem I see today is that it uses the left mouse button to drag the
page around. Left mouse button is really needed to select text, so
that's why I've suggested that the middle-button could use the feature,
just like Gimp or xpdf do it.

 With that feature enabled you can even left-click on a link to start
dragging the page. So it could be done for middle-button - it doesn't
need to open the links right away. Please, make it possible to use the
middle button instead of left button.

 Other than that I see you're again revisiting the keyboard setup. The
introduction of "Enable single key shortcuts" is appreciated. I
understand Opera taking steps to be more "compatible" with other
browsers, but as a quite old user I feel cheated with the changes.
Although "Enable single key shortcuts" is a nice move, it's way too
obscure. And if it were to be really single keys it had to go back to
the old days that e.g. "p" alone would cycle print preview. :-)

 What I would suggest is that instead of an obscure "Enable single key
shortcuts" you just packed an "Opera Classic" keyboard setup, tunned
with settings from 7.x 8.x perhaps, along with the standard one. Heh,
you could even pack an "Opera Truly Classic" for 5.x 6.x folks!

 I think that's important because I'm sure I'm not the only user
out there that cannot adapt to the other browsers keybindings[2]. And
"ctrl + alt + shift + <letter>" is painful to use.

 Anyway, I'm really happy with this alfa release.


 Roberto.

[1]
http://list.opera.com/pipermail/opera-linux/2006-January/009260.html

[2]as recently seen here (ctrl+d for paste and go):
http://list.opera.com/pipermail/opera-linux/2007-August/009587.html