ylluminate
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Due to the end of 32bit app support, the refinement of Coherence functionality is critically important now in Parallels 15, but unfortunately it's somewhat broken.
One example of this can be easily demonstrated with Skitch 1.x (here's an archived download). Skitch 1.x is still very important since it's essentially still the best little tool like this on the market and so this offers a decent test for the kind of functionality that would be expected from such an expensive and highly touted tool like Parallels 15. Missing this kind of functionality that I'm about to demonstrate really makes me wonder about supporting Parallels / Corel.
So a simple test:
1st: when I enter into Coherence with multiple monitors, unfortunately only one monitor is allowing the app to move around. This is a general and odd behavior for apps in Coherence. The macOS guest in Coherence mode should expand to all desktops.
2nd: when you make a screenshot in Skitch and then drag it out within Coherence mode, it just suddenly drops "somewhere". The normal behavior when dragging something out of any app should be to be able to drag it to a Menubar or Dock app, but it appears that Coherence is broken and currently just drops things spontaneously without any willful release of the trackpad / cursor. This is extremely problematic.
3rd: when in Coherence mode and you press a key combo like `cmd-control-shift-4` to take a screenshot to the paste/clipboard, you would expect that you're taking a screenshot of the HOST system - not the guest. For some reason, Parallels is buggy and is thinking that this key combo should go to the guest instead and that's really, really simply a bad mistake by the Parallels developers from a UX standpoint. When you're working in Coherence it is very obvious that key presses should generally go to the host system unless there is a very specific key combo that needs to go to the guest app that's currently in focus - else all key combo presses should go to Host!
I figured we can start with these and then work on some more after Parallels can fix this little monster issues.
One example of this can be easily demonstrated with Skitch 1.x (here's an archived download). Skitch 1.x is still very important since it's essentially still the best little tool like this on the market and so this offers a decent test for the kind of functionality that would be expected from such an expensive and highly touted tool like Parallels 15. Missing this kind of functionality that I'm about to demonstrate really makes me wonder about supporting Parallels / Corel.
So a simple test:
1st: when I enter into Coherence with multiple monitors, unfortunately only one monitor is allowing the app to move around. This is a general and odd behavior for apps in Coherence. The macOS guest in Coherence mode should expand to all desktops.
2nd: when you make a screenshot in Skitch and then drag it out within Coherence mode, it just suddenly drops "somewhere". The normal behavior when dragging something out of any app should be to be able to drag it to a Menubar or Dock app, but it appears that Coherence is broken and currently just drops things spontaneously without any willful release of the trackpad / cursor. This is extremely problematic.
3rd: when in Coherence mode and you press a key combo like `cmd-control-shift-4` to take a screenshot to the paste/clipboard, you would expect that you're taking a screenshot of the HOST system - not the guest. For some reason, Parallels is buggy and is thinking that this key combo should go to the guest instead and that's really, really simply a bad mistake by the Parallels developers from a UX standpoint. When you're working in Coherence it is very obvious that key presses should generally go to the host system unless there is a very specific key combo that needs to go to the guest app that's currently in focus - else all key combo presses should go to Host!
I figured we can start with these and then work on some more after Parallels can fix this little monster issues.