At last, we now can set the color/contrast of the desktop and not be so blinded by the abundance of white.....
Thank you, Corel, for this nice gift.
Right when Adobe went with subscription only model, people started saying that Corel was different. I said Corel must be dying to follow that same model. It's just business after all. Now we get to see the truth of my words. Corel can't force it on you like Adobe, so it's trying to influence you to subscribe. In this case, it's just pathetic how they chose to do it. They picked a couple of features that are extremely old news on competing products, and made them only available to subscription users. I don't think consumers view the subscription in the same way that Corel imagines they do. The more Corel does nonsense like this, the more even it's fans will dislike and distrust. It's really unfortunate. People were begging for the ability to change the brightness of the interface. Corel responds by dangling it like a carrot on a string.
I am not really upset about the whole premie scheme that Corel uses. Why? Because they have people willing to lay out $100 bucks a year to be beta testers. It's brilliant, really. By the time we mere mortals get the changes, maybe the bugs in those features get worked out.
Under the former scheme, I wouldn't see those features until a new release anyway.
While it would be classified as still playing catch-up, why don't they actually give premie users something of value like real paragraph and character styles? PDF/X-4 output? I could list a few dozen things under the "catch-up" category, let alone some actual new things. These things would at least provide a value-added deal for those willing to spend the extra money. Better than putting lipstick on a pig, so to speak, and then calling it a premium feature.
Actually this thing is annoying.
I use to draw 2D and 3D Rhinoceros 5.0, where you can customize all kinds of things.
The background workspace colorable with gradients, toolbars, written in the command line.
I do not understand why that Corel had started well with the personalization of the work has made this choice that castrates the user's choice.
Sorry for the outburst
As Mike illustrated, a simple reg hack, easily fixes the color for the UI. For them Corel guys, it must have taken like 2 minutes to do it in code and re-compile.
What blows my mind, is that Corel, instead of fixing the myriad bugs that have been reported all over this forum, has changed the color for the UI and touted it as a premium feature!
Un-f@#%ing-believable! I give em a standing ovation!
Now waiting on Update 3, to see what more absurdity Corel is upto.
Go ahead Corel, Make my jaw drop!!
Hi Suku,
suku said:As Mike illustrated, a simple reg hack, easily fixes the color for the UI. For them Corel guys, it must have taken like 2 minutes to do it in code and re-compile.
Anything you know how to do is simple and quick. Lots of stuff is working much better now but no cigar yet. My pdf issue is now gone. I am using x7 for real production without issue in regard to what I do.
suku said:What blows my mind, is that Corel, instead of fixing the myriad bugs that have been reported all over this forum, has changed the color for the UI and touted it as a premium feature!
To me getting rid of the white backgrounds is a big deal and lots of stuff was fixed, not all.
What blows my mind is how much money I can make using Draw and that part gets the cigar. I don't think any complex software will ever be 100%. I mean even if the bugs are fixed Microsoft shifts gears in the o/s and round and round we go. I got loads of high end programs here and they all have issues always did and I guess they always will. I think that is the nature of the game.
Bottom line is can you get the job done