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.
One VERY interesting aspect, is that MICROSOFT did fix a unique version of PP X4 that was loaded (at the same second) together with Win 8 system files and then 8.1 and finally Win 10 when they actually did force all those updates on me... Even when I did refuse to update... They must have seen that I did check if it was compatible (which it NOT is in original) before they clearly did fix a working version and then load that working copy, together with the new windows... And yes, they did load a new working version of Corel Draw X4 with each new Windows version... But I had finally to buy Corel Draw 2018 when my lovely notebook was stolen and I had to buy a new one, because it was impossible (withour MicroSoft special help) to make my perfect old PP X4 to work...
BUT their special version of X4 did work perfect with Windows 10 and had naturally automatic resize floating windows, without any tabs - so it is not a must to disable that function (that already is in the code) for Windows 10 or use those annoying tabs, either!
So there is absolutely no reason to NOT give us autosize windows back, plus the options to turn off tabs - as an update to 2018 and later versions... But I can not afford to buy a newer version, because I had only just enough money for the new notebook 2020 and the slightly old CD 2018 and nothing more...