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?
It drives me crazy because I get my images arranged to work with them, I'm cutting and pasting back and forth between them so I need to see multiple images at once. I move one a little, or try to resize the window, it pops to a tab and then I have to stop my work flow, move it back, rearrange it while trying to keep it from popping back to a tab again. Huge waste of time and concentration interrupter. Corel bought the program around 1991 or 1992, prior to that it was ZPaint. I don't recall if it got past version 1.0 as ZPaint before they took over.
David, it amazes me the lack of tolerance there is to other users who may have legitimate reasons for complaining about a product they've bought into over several updates and now feel it no longer works for them.
So, it's fine for you. I'm happy for you, David, really, I am. But what will you do if on the next update they do something really dumb to anger you? What! They've dropped Macros - but I NEED Macros, they were so darn useful! Will you then come on here and tell everybody who moans about the loss to just get on with it, because that's what you'll do? If we don't raise concerns, the developers of this product will never know what we do/don't like about the changes they make.
I decided to stick to X6 for this reason - tabbed windows are not productive if you work with more than one window. We need the option to have non-tabbed windows, as in X6. I'll accept the software bloat.
As other features, from my personal point of view it should be optional. That means, it could be a part of the customization of the workspace. Each one choose what he prefers or what works best for him.
I'll return to the point that the code for auto re-sizing multiple windows is already there - they just need to find a way to add it back in. Personally, I'd ditch tabbed windows completely, but that would upset the Davids of this world and all those who've been forced to get used to it. Tabbed windows should always have been an option. It should have been a customisation to brag about. It could still be.
Ariel that sounds like a good idea but when the application becomes corrupt due to over customization and useless the IT guy complains about the service time and then simply forces the company to use Adobe, what then? If people would take the time they whine and cry about things and just work maybe they'd be more profitble. If change bothers you make sure you never work in IT.