Bug 476026

Summary: Continuous crop feature is disruptive when working with expensive filters/fills
Product: [Applications] krita Reporter: tomtomtomreportingin
Component: UsabilityAssignee: Krita Bugs <krita-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description tomtomtomreportingin 2023-10-23 23:39:46 UTC 
SUMMARY
The continuous crop component of the crop tool is too disruptive when re-doing crops of artwork involving expensive filters or fills.

The continuous crop feature is officially described here: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/tools/crop.html#continuous-crop

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Draw a few circles in a large 3k x 4k document.
2. Add a gaussian blur filter layer with max radius.
3. Crop the image to roughly half the size.
4. Click again with the crop tool.

OBSERVED RESULT
A prompt shows up, waiting for the expensive filter operation to complete as the document has returned to its original size.

EXPECTED RESULT
Either there should be some sort of caching, or the UX of this aspect of cropping should be rethought. Personally, I wouldn't expect attempting to do another crop would essentially act as an undo.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian Sid
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.107.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7 (appimage)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Two years ago I thought the continuous crop behavior was a bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443045