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?
Really, it was an idea from Microsoft, about the compatibilty with Windows 10 capabilities. And yes, at first, it's annoying, but after a while you get used to it and it's familiar. I don't believe they will be back to version 16.0, since we're currently on the version 20.0
Anyway you can undock documents, and leave it floating. Or enlarge to use the entire window.
I agree with Ariel. The tab design was in Microsoft's design specs and is common with most all Multiple Document Interfaces. Corel did the MDI in I believe CorelDRAW 6. You can get it somewhat back the way it was in prior versions along with sizeable windows by setting the windows to Cascade. The tab scenario is used and quite handy when you are working with multiple monitors
What I think they are missing are alignment guide icons that you see in some other programs which use a Tabbed MDI. You can do it in DRAW, it's just not quite as easy or intuitive because IMO it only shows target areas as grayed out portions of the screen that can be hard to hit. The obvious advantages of tabs besides their use on multiple monitors that I see are multiple documents in specific tabbed groups and is much more flexible than the older style.
It's interesting but it's simply regulated the docking of windows E-W, N-S, with no auto-sizing for undocked ones. How would it work with half-a-dozen images on the screen?