3. When we will see updater version of Info panel: http://my.opera.com/nafmo/blog/2006/11/30/updating-the-info-panel ?

Oh, that is already in 9.50 Alpha 3! Great! Sorry, my mistake ─ question canceled

is the new opera skin in works?

is the new opera logo in works?

if you don’t want to disclose – is the change/alteration of identity even considered?

what was the test group that recent UI changes were tested on? 100 people? 10k people? or, i fear that, 3 people that were accidentally wandering trough the nearest corridor?

why back/forward buttons with arrows arent the default ones instead of ones without arrows? [i know that operas one displays menu after holding mouseclick for a while, but NOONE WILL NEVER KNOW THAT!]. you start a war for consistency from the wrong end

and using wrong methods:
are you planning to include keyboard layouts instead of hardcoding pieces of configuration into the opera code?

will middle mouse click be EVER customizable? what is so different in this button

whats wrong in providing ‘close tab and switch to the tab to the right’ as an option? this is the prime consistency problem, not the status bar, that i personally feel a clutter

when opera is going to understand ‘middle mouse click on javascript link’?

when opera will provide always on top option for error console?

why detaching tab options are hidden so well, and why there is no easy way of attatching a tab to a window. way that works is so hard to find, that i dont think that anyone could have guessed how it works on their own.

etc etc etc but i simply feel that most answers are going to be ‘we are working on it’ :/

taken from:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=200865&t=1189542985&page=1#comment2240737

Vincent: in Firefox I had to click on address bar to paste text ─ and this is fine IMO. For Opera it doesn’t matter where I click. That’s what I don’t like.

You are comparing apples and oranges here , middleclick on an open window/page pastes the selection buffer in almost all Unix apps, it doesn’t matter where you click on. For example, if you middleclick on the edge of a terminal window, the content will be pasted wherever the cursor is placed, same happens with other apps like text editors, etc. Opera does the same thing but since it’s a browser it opens a new page, pastes the buffer and then goes to it. If you want to paste the content directly into the address field, Opera won’t go to the page until you press enter — just like in FF. Just because FF doesn’t implement middleclick on page doesn’t mean Opera is doing something wrong. Besides, you can always disable the middleclick thingy under preferences (by using the panning option).

I agree on that point!

The question now:

why is that it’s not possible to add as many toolbars (let’s say, I want seven of them because I have a 30″ screen and a loooot of place to use) as we want where we want?

“I find it incredibly unintuitive that clicking the X in a panel closes the whole panel bar and not only that particular panel.”

I don’t think it’s unintuitive. I think, that’s the way it should work.

But I agree missing ‘>>’ which was pretty useful, and agree removing Fast forward and rewind from default layout. Tha latter ones can be really confusing for new users (”Why ‘two’ back and forward buttons?”).

Also missing View bar, why you’d have to remove it COMPLETELY? What’s more, you shouldn’t have to adapt to new users by turning keyboard shortcuts upside down, and similar to the other browsers. With each improvement on FF side, Opera loses his uniquenesses one by one. And you assist for it. Create a ’starter’ Opera interface (and buttons), and leave us the option to swich back to ‘advanced’ mode. Than everyone will be happy. Opera has the possibility for that so you should use it.

oops: Otto has beat me in this suggestion…

1. Why default action in Opera (on Linux) for middle mouse click is “Paste text from clipboard”? This is quite confusing, doesn’t exist in Firefox and in Konqueror there is a special alert.

First, it doesn’t paste text from clipboard, it pastes the selection buffer which is a different beast. Second, how come is it confusing?. Middleclick pasting is standard in Unix applications — if I middleclick in the terminal, it pastes the buffer content, same happens in Opera: a new page opens with the content of the selection buffer as an address; that’s the expected result.

I’d like to see the rewind and fast forward buttons go (disabled), the magic wand button and perhaps a home button added by default. It’s very rare that I actually use them and would be happy to sacrifice them to gain less clutter. Off course I could press F11, but I do like to see the tabs and the addressbar.

My two pennies…

I’m not talking about a different version. I am talking about a second keyboard setup, selectable in prefs-advanced-shortcuts or at least downloadable in a prominent place on my.opera.com

Concerning the view bar: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=203759&t=1189509980&page=2#comment2236098

When there is a blog post about Opera somewhere, you can always read things such as “I tried Opera, but is there an AdBlock/NoScript/GM/DownThemAll/whatever equivalent? I can’t live without that.”

Let’s face it – there is a lot of hidden and practically invisible, but EXTREMELY useful functionality in Opera. Do you plan on addressing that, and if so, how?