feature request - global on/off switch + per-site settings

The problem currently is dragonfly is off until it is open/visible. I think dragonfly needs:

• an on/off switch
• an open/close switch
• per-site settings

For comparison, firebug is globally enabled 24/7 and i only disable certain aspects on a per-site basis (like the net tab for gmail because of performance).

+1

+10

Any staff response to this? Is this indevelopment? never happening? anything?

The goal of this is white and black lists. Either you turn it on globally and blacklist some sites (gmail for instance) or you can turn it off globally and whitelist some sites. So when you're on a site from the whitelist, df is enabled although you may not see it. So when I open df on a whitelisted site, I don't need to reload to see scripts are reload to see the net traffic because they should always be captured because this site is whitelisted.

Having to reload pages for things to function is time consuming and in some cases completely nullifies the point of trying to debug. There is no guarantee I can break the same thing twice consistently. Sometimes I need to debug the here and now... not reload and then debug.

Originally posted by fearphage:

Any staff response to this? Is this indevelopment? never happening? anything?

Is this thing on? Are you waiting for the surprise of it having been done already in core 2.3?

+1

Originally posted by dstorey:

If we spent all our time in the forums, we’d never get any work or development done

All of your time is quite a bit of exaggeration really. The df forums aren't very active. 3 posts per day would be a big overestimate of the traffic. I/we don't want or need a full thesis in each thread. Simply, "yes, we are working on that now", "we're researching that", "that's interesting", "we'll investigate the possibility of...", "hell no, we'll never do that, are you retarded?!", or similar one-line responses would generally be appreciated. That alone would set these forums apart from the desktop wish-list forums which function more like a one-way wishing well. Initially, dragonfly started very open with lots of bidirectional communication. This is one of the few aspects of Opera's development that functions that way. I would like to maintain that.

Post edited Wednesday, 9. September 2009, 09:27:47

+1 for this request; going through the menu system is very cumbersome (and I can never remember keyboard shortcuts).

Filed as DFL-811