Hello to all the forum members.

It was killing me that I couldn't install the latest Krita 3.0 on my KDE 4 system. I kept getting build errors, and no mater what I tried it would not install. And sadly, Gentoo only has the 2.9.11 version of Krita's ebuilds available in the official repos. I really wanted to be able to try out the new changes in Krita. So I finally install Plasma 5 on my Gentoo system and had a successful build! Happy days.

So I started configuring Krita the way that I like it laid out, and decided that I was going to start messing with the animation suite. However, when using the animation tools in Krita (with a custom document, not the animation template), the brush stops working after making a new frame. On the next frame I can only use my pen to draw the first stroke; after I lift my pen and re-press it to draw another line it no longer works. Adding new frames by right clicking and adding new frames I can not draw, or make any marks with the brush. (It behaved the same with the perspective tools as well. I had to use mouse to click the anchor points, even that method was temperamental) But, if I use the frame box to change to another frame in the Animation docker to move along the timeline, then the pen works again until I lift it and then can no longer draw anymore. This applies to when I return to the previous frames, I can't draw on them again.
When I draw without the animation suite I have no issues with the brush, or other tools, not registering.
Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

[Edit] Okay I have been doing more testing with Krita and found some more issues. So, with the time line, if I have it open and I click on it, then the brush stops working. If I use any of the selection tools, they do not show the marching ants; there is no feed back to indicate that I have made any selections. And once I switch back to my brush tool I can no longer make any marks, and the pen and mouse can no longer work in the work space. The pen pressure (pen presses refuses to work) stops registering when I select any other tool other than the brush, I have to save the document with short cuts and close the peace and re-open it before I can use the brush again.
I am going to mess around with Krita some more and see what else it is/isn't doing.

Gentoo_x64 KDE Plasma 5
Krita version 3.1 Alpha (git ed52ec5)
Wacom Intous 5 touch M


Is there a way to change the way the tool bar looks when using "Subwindows"? The font is blurry on tool bar, the boxes, and color are horrible to look at. It really bothers me; it is very distracting. I use the "Subwindows" for checking values with the "LUT Management" and for having my references in another frame when I am painting/drawing. In the previous versions, in KDE 4, it didn't look like that, it used the system window decorations/color (Oxygen) and not the qt plastic theme. Is this Krita's fault, or Plasma's?

Thanks again for all the dev's hard work on Krita. I am sure myself and many others are very happy with this program and where it is going.
(was the OS option in profile disabled? I can't set mine)
Cheers!

I am going to try to get a bug report filed for this.

It has been a while since I did one so I forget what directory that I need to be in to run "gdb krita" in so I can record what happens when I switch from another tool and back to the brush.
[Edit] okay so I got the gdb figured out. Its dir is loacted in "home/krita/inst/bin/". And I ran it and I didn't see any errors in the terminal when the brush stopped working. I would change the brush and until I lifted the pen, it would work but stop as soon as I pushed the pen down again. This really sucks. Now to submit it.


Thanks

I discovered more to this issue.
If I use the keyboard shortcut to select any of the selection tools and use it, then switch back to the brush, all is fine and works the way it should. I is only when I select the different tool, or animation boxes, that the pen with the brush stops working.
So I guess if I want to draw I have to make sure everything has a short cut so I can use Krita. Well until I can get this sorted out.

Alright even more!

Well I might have figured this out. I don't usually doc my tools bar, I have it detached and above my top bar, where I wish it could go, and I am pretty sure that I had the animation timeline floating as well. So it looks like there is a bug with detached dockers and changing tools.
I am glad that I could find a work around.

Bug submitted: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365178