I was surprised to get a very poor exported .gif image from krita as follows:

This is the .png output from krita of some colour patches. There are 12 unique colours in the image: https://i.imgur.com/ibmIaPw.png

The .gif output should be a very good one since there are only 12 colours in the image. It is not good: https://i.imgur.com/Y1wbOUV.gif

Just to check, I opened the .png file with GIMP and exported as a .gif: https://i.imgur.com/kD2slI0.gif

Is something going wrong with the krita .gif export?

P.S. This is with krita 4.1.1 on Debian 9 and the 4.2.0 pre-alpha build has the same problem.

We don't have specialised gif code, so it is probably a bug in the qt code for gif.

Thank you for the rapid reply and explanation. The GIMP workaround is easy to do

I don't have this palette problem with rendering animations as animated .gifs and that is because krita outputs the intermediate frame sequence as .png files then lets ffmpeg do the .gif palette formation and rendering.

Btw, I recently learned that many websites, when one uploads an animated gif, turn it into an mpeg file, and when uploading a still gif, into a jpeg image.