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?
Yes, it drives me crazy too... I had X4 and I got very unhappy when I found this windows mess... I use to have 4 to 8 windows open, plus one reference photo for skin colours and I also change the view size very often, which make this tab mess almost hopeless...
The totally useless tab (when you have one photo in one window) steal also valuable space at the top of each window, making every window bigger than it have to be!!
Sorry to hear this issue is still causing grief to faithful Paint users. I've given up on Paint in so much that I won't be upgrading from X6 unless this issue is fully resolved.