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?
Ariel said:It's not like a "I want to have a 3D interface"
Just to understand.
Can you explain, what you mean with a "3D interface"? (the Adobe interface?)
Haha. David, and company never miss an opportunity to fight anyone who sounds remotely critical of Corel. And I agree with you regarding both the tabs and the need for things to be optional. I've never been a fan of tabbed interface and some of my work requires that I work with the same image in two windows side by side.
Hot Coffee said:
I meant to transform CorelDRAW in a 3D program like 3D Studio, Cinema, Maya, etc would be a very complex application to perform. Perhaps it is a good request, but certainly very difficult to carry out, at least in the short term.
On the other hand, allowing the existing interface to be retained, in addition to adding a new one, does not seem to be so difficult. I'm not saying it's a "five-minute task" but not something that might require months of work.
As I said before, I would give my vote so that the user had the chance to choose which option to use.
Corel Technical Suite already includes some 3D capabilities with Designer. A full 3D program is an entirely different animal. It would double the size of the installation and double the cost.It makes more sense to use a dedicated 3D program, like 3D studio, Rhino, SketchUp, Maya, or ZBrush for 3D work.