I've upgraded from X6 and Tabs are driving me insane. I drag in any number of images to view and work on them side by side. What do I need? - auto-resizing, floating windows and all the real estate I can muster.
1) Sure, open images using Open or Open Recent... and if the Option is set to "Open documents in floating window" they will open in floating windows, but drag them in from Windows Explorer and they tab. Can we have consistency here? Better still, can we get rid of tabs?
2) Tabs should be optional. They take up real estate and get in the way of working with multiple images.
3) The snap feature which opens the image to full workspace should also be an option. Why should I have to use Ctrl just to dock windows across the top? Lunacy.
4) no auto-resize of the floating window? Seriously? I mean, seriously? Corel clearly wants me to use tabs, but seriously, no auto-resize of the windows? Really? How many lines of coding must that have saved?
Here's where I'm coming from. I use SolidEdge CAD and when they introduced a revolutionary non-history-based method of creating 3D objects they had the good sense to maintain the old history-based method for those who preferred it. Everybody was happy. Cannot the same be done here and allow floating windows exactly as they were in X6, just for those of us who prefer/need that way of working?
I'm getting used to the tabs...BUT...I am not a fan of them in Photo-Paint. I still would like to see the auto-view resize come back. I too would much rather have the floating window's frame resize with the image. It keeps the work area less cluttered when working with multiple images -- which I do a lot!
And as for the auto-docking if you drag the image too close to the top -- I would love an option to turn that off completely!Patti
Harrah! Somebody else agrees.
What we have in 2018 is a floating windows sop. I don't want a sop, I want to be able to work as I did. Unfortunately, it seems Corel developers now imagine everybody works with single images. We don't. We really don't.
I simply cannot use PP2018 with tabs (I have tried, honest) and will continue to use X6 until MSoft makes it unusable with Windows 12. After that, goodbye PP.
Corel, try listening to your users. Tabs in Paint don't work for everybody. Take a tip from SolidEdge and offer both methods of working. I'm happy to take to hit on the loading up time because I'll get it back with productivity.