[Opera-Linux] Improving Opera 9.5 - some ideas

[Roberto Salles]

 Hello developers and list.

 First thank you for this new release. It seem pretty good so far.
But there's always some room for improvements - hopefully not
difficult to be done at all.

 Initially I would like to suggest some time in shortcuts. There's a
trend going to make Opera behave like IE/Firefox. This is of course
to make those browsers users confortable when trying Opera. But on
this trend I (long time user) feel myself cheated. I suggested last
year that you shipped a classic shortcut file, where ctrl+D is paste
and go, ctrl+N is a new tab and so on. Best of all, that file
wouldn't need to be maintained (for obvious reasons).

 I also would like to point out again that "Enable single-key
shortcuts" is very confusing. Looking for help I've found those
links via google:

 http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/keyboard/
 http://help.opera.com/Windows/9.50/en/keyboard.html

 The first one is useless. The second one tells us at the end
(hopefully) what the checkbox does. But then, if you look at it, why
Shift+G, Shift+I etc are enabled when I enable "single-key"
shortcuts? What happens if I edit some shortcut and tick it? It's not
clear at all.

 I think you would do better to ship a classic config file (single
key shortcuts as in Opera 6, P would cycle print preview etc) and
forget that checkbox. A good mid-term to be also shipped is an Opera
8.x configuration - I saved a 8.5 for me because I don't like the way
shortcuts are today. That way I have "single-keys" without ticking
that checkbox.

 My second and last simple suggestion relates to "Scroll is Pan"
option (accessible through opera:config). Being able to drag the page
around as a PDF is a wonderful feature, but it's useless when you
can't select any text the usual way.

 That happens because you use Button 1 to do drag contents. Maybe
instead of a checkbox it should be configured as 0 (disabled) and 1,
2, 3 etc (enabled) and the number would be the mouse button number? I
would like to drag the contents around using middle-button as is
standard behaviour in gimp, xpdf and evince (gnome's document
viewer), and have left button to select text as usual.

 Thanks for reading and sorry for quite a long e-mail.

 Roberto.