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?
David Milisock said:Ariel is a honorable person
Yes, Ariel is a honorable person but he don't accept any legit critics about CorelDraw.
That's not my experience with him, I criticize on a regular basis. He's an old school gentleman.
Before you accuse anyone of BS - and if that isn't truly insulting, what is? - I'll describe your comments here as very rarely positive. It's as if you've set yourself up as a guard dog to protect the status quo, come what may. What is implied by your comments is - I have what I want, sod the rest of you.
Let's go back four years to a reply to RoyReed, where you wrote - "I see web work, I never think in those terms...". That shows even back then you were out of touch with us. Fine it suits you, but it was a bad day for others. Accept that. Another - "I tend to think in 50MB to 1.5GB file sizes. When you work with large files you tend to only have one or two open..." Again, good for you, of no help whatsoever to us who work differently. You never saw the problem and you still don't. Yet you come here and argue it down at every turn. Why can't we BOTH have what we want, David? What's wrong with that? What's so wrong about us having what WE want so we can ALL be as happy as you?
No. It doesn't take all that faff you refer to. That's another smokescreen in order to do nothing. Some four or more years ago, somebody at Corel decided to go with tabs and the auto-docking. The significant coding for non-tabs and non-auto docking that is already there. We are not asking for new features here, just the old ones back. Make these features an option. Three years ago I wrote -
"Discovered that an image brought to the 2018 workspace through New From Clipboard, Open, Open Recent or Open With... (Connect or Explorer) appear in an AUTO-SIZED window. So it CAN be done.".
Proving that the code is still there, and within the 2018 version with tabs.
The point here is. Some four years ago, somebody at Corel made a decision to jettison users like us in favour of users like you. I doubt there was much marketing strategy behind it other than lets copy so-and-so, it seems to work for them. The fall out is that they've driven long-term users of Paint away from Corel into their arms. I may be wrong but nobody from the Dev team or Product Marketing has ever come on here to explain that decision, nor why they can't reverse it.
I have respect for you David, but you have to see that your input here is negative to the cause and therefore not helpful to it. I'm happy to let Ariel do what he can to put it before the people who count, if he's happy to do that.
That is a serious and totally false accusation.When have I refused to accept any legitimate criticism?It seems somewhat unfair to me, considering that for years I have been helping many people to solve their problems. If I denied the criticism, I would not accept that there are errors or problems to fix. I've been reporting bugs for almost 20 years and helping people fix their problems.Honestly, I find it somewhat offensive that you say that I have refused to accept any legitimate criticism.Furthermore, I have offered to send your proposal to the technicians and managers, if you prepare a request detailing the reasons, advantages, disadvantages, etc. so that it is not just a question of "I like it that way." And yet your answer was "read the whole thread yourself, and do it yourself if you want". Considering that the person interested in changing it is you, it seems the most logical thing to explain it yourself. I am making a sincere and disinterested proposal to convey your proposal, but your response is very unkind, and above all, you unfairly accuse me of not accepting criticism. Surely you do not know the amount of criticism that I have transmitted to the company, so that they make improvements in the program.
Comments like this are disappointing ...