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Re: Preferences UI design question

Subject: Re: Preferences UI design question
From: Howard Brazee
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:24:02 -0600
Newsgroups: opera.general
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:45:52 +0300, Marek Mänd <cador.soft@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> Why should't there be something like FF's about:config /within/ Opera,  
>> which IMO would suffice most wishes for more GUI to set hidden Prefs?
>
>Totally agree with you.

It certainly makes walking someone through a setting very easy, and
assists in keeping them out of direct contact with configuration
files.

>Plus to make the installation package smaller,
>then there could be optional text database file released with each new  
>version of Opera, that advanced users might to download fromOperas site,  
>that would serve as quickhelp for each about:config property, describing  
>what the property is intended for and how changing it affects behaviour.
>What you think of that?

A better designed about: process could do this from within Opera.

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