Some input about current Krita Windows build

[Dmitry Kazakov]

Hi!

Today I was presenting Krita to a friend of mine who works as a painter. I
had to use Windows version to show her capabilities of Krita, because at
work/home she uses Mac/Windows only. So here I'd like to tell about the
issues I found during testing:

1) It crashes randomly. This usually happens while painting or while
changing the settings of the brush or choosing a preset or doing some other
action. I couldn't see a backtrace, but this happens only when you do
something, so it is surely *not* an auto-saving bug.

2) Shift+Drag gesture is sometimes (for some kinds of brushes) very slow. I
remember I was fixing this problem, but it is still the case in some cases.

3) Shift+Alt+Space gesture doesn't work. The reason is probably that
Shift+Alt is the default shortcut for switching languages in Windows. Just
for you know, Photoshop can somehow workaround this problem

4) Pressing the "Edit Brush Settings" twice does *not* hide the dialog ---
it opens it twice instead. Due to this effect the user must click on the
canvas, which starts a stroke and paints on the image.

5) "Edit Brush Settings" dialog doesn't fit the wide-format laptop screen
(I guess it was a 15" laptop).

6) Selection Tool decoration is not seen when you paint it. That means you
have to paint the selection without seeing what you actually paint. The
decoration appears only *after* you finish the stroke. I have seen such
effect when I disabled Double Buffering in opengl on Linux.

7) Warp Transform Tool works unutterably slow on Windows. I cannot explain
it, but one simply cannot use it.

8) The preview of the Warp Tool in Custom Points mode is cropped by the
rectangle, covering the points. The rest of the image is somehow hidden.

9) The brush outline is quite difficult to see, especially in QPainter
canvas mode.

Ok, although there are still many regressions with regards to the Linux
version, I guess current openGL implementation for Windows is rather nice!
;) It works quite fast and smooth. All the canvas transformations like
canvas rotation and zooming work impressively :) Of course we need to give
a bit more love to the WIndows version. Speaking truly, I think Windows
version is essential to get more popularity among studios (at least in
Russia).

-- 
Dmitry Kazakov
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