GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 589929
Drawing fast curves with GIMP is slow
Last modified: 2009-08-03 20:56:00 UTC
Drawing with GIMP via graphic tablett (mine is a Intuos 3) is slow. You don't get this nice flowing lines like with Photoshop. If you draw fast curves, they are much more angular than in Photoshop CSx. A picture of Photoshop line qualitiy: http://www2.pic-upload.de/27.07.09/7zet6p8eq63t.png And here the GIMP one: http://www2.pic-upload.de/27.07.09/7j9d464t2ai.png
Hi and thanks for the bug report! There is better stroke interpolation in the development version. Regarding the performance issues, this could depend on a number of things, such as your OS, window manager, tablet configuration, use of other applications in the background, lack of ram, etc. And exactly what is the condition for closing this as FIXED? You want it to be better, but how much better? I'm not sure it makes sense to keep this bug report open. Until I have made up my mind on the fate of this bug report, please provide a very detailed specification of the system you use where you see these performance issues.
Created attachment 139432 [details] Drawing fast cureves with PS CS2 and GIMP 2.6.6 Let's get rid of the edges in fast drawing curves in GIMP. I drew this examples in the same situation.
Created attachment 139435 [details] My system with newest wacom intuos 3 drivers.
Note that the main development platform for GIMP is Linux, and its performance on Windows is not something the active developers have much contact with. Also, the tablet-handling code in GTK+ on Windows is practically unmaintained. (But apparently for you the tablet works otherwise nice, just that the performance could be better?)
Isn't this just a duplicate of bug #471344 ?
This bug report also brings up performance issues, so it's not a duplicate.
But we all know that the main issue causing the described problem is performance. What exactly is the performance issue described in this bug report? I don't even see any information that would indicate that there is a performance issue.
I think you're right, I misunderstood the original reporter, let's close it as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 471344 ***