Some input about current Krita Windows build

[silvio grosso]

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks a lot indeed for your long report about the Windows build.

Do you think that porting Krita to Qt 5 (or 5.1.x) might solve these problems?

If I recall correctly, Boud explained that with the Qt5 switch some other features (requests) might be fulfilled as well (e.g. having only one window when you open many different images in a row). For instance, by placing them in different tabs (such as in Firefox etc).

IMHO, in the future, for the Windows versions, all efforts should be concentrated only on the 64 bit version (which is what already somewhat occurs).


Best regards,

Silvio




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> Da: Dmitry Kazakov <dimula73 at gmail.com>
>A: Krayon (KImageShop) <kimageshop at kde.org> 
>Inviato: Mercoledì 17 Luglio 2013 23:47
>Oggetto: Some input about current Krita Windows build
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>Hi!
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>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:
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>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.
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>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.
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>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
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>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. 
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>5) "Edit Brush Settings" dialog doesn't fit the wide-format laptop screen (I guess it was a 15" laptop).
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>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.
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>7) Warp Transform Tool works unutterably slow on Windows. I cannot explain it, but one simply cannot use it.
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>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.
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>9) The brush outline is quite difficult to see, especially in QPainter canvas mode.
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>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).
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