Bug 408088

Summary:	No visual feedback on clicking reload file layer and unfolding hierarchy instead
Product:	[Applications] krita	Reporter:	katearcher89
Component:	Usability	Assignee:	Krita Bugs <krita-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	minor	CC:	ghevan, halla
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description katearcher89 2019-05-29 23:49:30 UTC

SUMMARY
There is a button on a file layer in a docker with circular arrows presumably meaning that the file layer should be reloaded from disk but clicking on in results in nothing.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click on the button with circular arrows situated on a file layer row in layers docker

OBSERVED RESULT
Nothing happens or if there are masks applied to a layer all of the layer hierarchy unfolds.

EXPECTED RESULT
Some visual feedback that Krita is trying to reload the file and totally not the unfolding of masks attached to a layer instead.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Happens in Krita 4.1.7 and 4.2.0 noth on ubuntu18.04 and win10.

Comment 1 vanyossi 2019-05-30 05:05:24 UTC

The file layers reload automatically if the linked file changes, there is no need to reload them. The icon seems to be there to indicate the automatic reload, or maybe sometime in the past you had to reload manually.


boud: Should we change the icon? or remove it entirely?

Comment 2 katearcher89 2019-05-30 10:30:47 UTC

I suppose it should be removed entirely then. All of the elements of the layer column are interactive so having an icon that is not clickable is misleading. 

Although I have to say that in my experience file layers exceeding certain size(I wasn't making tests just observed it on the course of working with such files) are not updated at all so a way to indicate that the file layer has been updated of some kind or a way to manually force the update without reloading the parent document would be a nice addiction.

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Comment 4 Halla Rempt 2019-06-21 11:46:44 UTC

Ah, no... Just like with other layer types, it's just the icon that shows the layer type. Just like other layer type icons it isn't meant to be clickable. 

If we'd do anything about it, we'd have to design a new icon, one that would signify "this is a dynamic layer that reloads itself from its source."