GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 736953
Layer outline disappears when zooming in
Last modified: 2018-05-24 14:41:30 UTC
This might be related to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735463 (because it happens exactly at the same zoom factor of 9000%). On Gimp 2.8.14 (new installer) for Windows x64, big zoom-factors cause the Layer outline to disappear. Steps to reproduce: Create a new image, plain white, standard size of 640*400px. Zoom in on the image border. Somewhere between 6400% and 9000%, the yellow-black-dotted outline which shows the size of the active layer, disappears. This also applies for any other image I tested.
Zoom is a tool, and changing tools gets rid of the previous tool's interaction. 2.8 aborts, 2.10 will commit the ongoing tool action. The only way I see to solve this is to introduce some shortcut involving the space key like we do for panning, but that would be a new feature.
Uhhm, are you sure that this behavior has something to do with tool switching? I uploaded a short video for clarificaion (watch the zoom values): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PbbfLAB9-c For me this looks like it is the same problem as in the linked bug: cairo or some other component seems to have problems with rendering some parts of the UI while the image zoom value is too high. Strange enough, this seems to have become "worse" with gimp 2.8.14: On one PC (Win 8.1x64, Gimp 2.8.14 - this is the one I filed this report with), the border disappears at 9000% and on the PC I used in order to record the video (Win 8.1x64, Gimp 2.8.10) you can zoom in one step further before it finally disappears.
It is.
Um, I was commenting on the wrong bug, sorry :)
Just a quick remark, the description says All OS while it seems to be only for WIN platform as you says :)
Oh, I seem to have forgotten to change that while creating the Bug-Report. May
My Browser ate the last part of my message Oo "Oh, I seem to have forgotten to change that while creating the Bug-Report. Maybe I can change it now (I'm new to bugzilla and don't know how all this stuff works)." But it seems to have worked. Is everything alright now or have I still forgotten something?
No it's good for the platform aparently, but i'm new too so maybe i forgot some thing, but i can confirm that is not a Linux bug because the zoom has a limit on this OS.
"apparently" sorry for my bad english.
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