SUMMARY This bug is present in all versions from 4.1.7 to the latest Nightly krita-4.3.0-prealpha-fc51481-x86_64.appimage If a vertical or horizontal vector line is drawn and then selected and its line stroke style edited in the Tool Options docker and then set to Gradient, the yellow gradient controller handles appear. If the yellow end points are moved at all, they suddenly go to infinity. This can be recovered by selecting a stroke style of Solid. If a line that is not vertical or horizontal is drawn, it does not have this bug. The reason for this (or a related factor) seems to be that the bounding box for a line initially drawn as vertical or horizontal has a zero width bounding box, whereas as an initially non vertical/horizontal line has a bounding box of finite width. If an intially drawn vertical/horizontal line is rotated, its bounding box is still zero width and so it still exhibits the bug. If an intially non-vertical/horizontal line is rotated to be horizontal/vertical, it still has a finite bounding box width and so does not exhibit this bug. STEPS TO REPRODUCE See Summary OBSERVED RESULT See Summary EXPECTED RESULT It shouldn't do that. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Krita Version: 4.3.0-prealpha (git fc51481) Languages: en_GB, en Hidpi: true Qt Version (compiled): 5.12.2 Version (loaded): 5.12.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A workaround for this is to draw a long thin rectangle (instead of a line) and set its stroke to No Fill and its fill to Gradient. Another (but crude) workaround is to draw an initially non-vertical/horizontal line and then to adjust its bounding box to make it apparently 'zero width', after which it becomes vertical/horizontal and has a well behaved gradient controller.
I can confirm on KDE Neon with Krita 4.3 pre-alpha.