Bug 410750 - Annoying straight lines when I draw slow
Summary: Annoying straight lines when I draw slow
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: krita
Classification: Applications
Component: Brush engines (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2.5
Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based) Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Krita Bugs
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Reported: 2019-08-09 05:21 UTC by BD
Modified: 2020-05-25 04:33 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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An example of the bug, created by writing "Hello World" twice. Mind that I wrote them at max hardness and somewhat slowly. (16.48 KB, image/png)
2019-08-09 05:21 UTC, BD
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Description BD 2019-08-09 05:21:37 UTC
Created attachment 122032 [details]
An example of the bug, created by writing "Hello World" twice. Mind that I wrote them at max hardness and somewhat slowly.

SUMMARY
Lines keep shooting out from the point of my pen while I'm trying to draw.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a canvas of whatever size.
2. Draw on the canvas.
3. Draw hard or slow, slow down, or pause mid-stroke.

OBSERVED RESULT
Straight lines appear, pointing in random directions outward from the point of the cursor.

EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Linux Mint 19.2 (cinnamon)
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 5.9.5

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Using a Wacom Cintiq 13HD, touch and gestures not enabled.
- Settings had to be manually applied via xsetwacom because the Graphics Tablet GUI is broken (caused issues with pen calibration).
- This bug does not occur on other art programs such as Drawpile and GIMP.
- Krita's "Show system information for bug reports" display is detecting my system as Linux Mint 19.1, when it's really 19.2. Might be related?
Comment 1 BD 2019-08-09 06:36:58 UTC
[UPDATE] Krita not detecting the os version is apparently not connected, as I managed to fix that bit on my own and the line bug is still occurring; just felt the need to include that after stupidly mentioning it.

Also want to retract my assumption that it requires drawing slow to reproduce the bug. I have just experienced the bug while drawing fast.
Comment 2 vanyossi 2019-08-09 09:14:25 UTC
Can you reproduce this behaviour in older versions of Krita? As it seems this is a performance issue and might be (or not) related to the system. I did some testing and did not get any slowdown or random straight line.
Comment 3 BD 2019-08-09 23:50:32 UTC
Thanks for the quick reply! Took a little time going through each version starting from 4.2.0. Only 4.2.5 seems to behave like this. Tried 4.2.5 as an appimage as well and it still does it. I guess I'll stick with 4.2.4 for now, until a solution is found of course.
Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2019-08-10 04:33:12 UTC
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Comment 5 Halla Rempt 2019-08-10 08:43:12 UTC
Does this also happen if you switch to another desktop system, like KDE's plasma?
Comment 6 BD 2019-08-10 23:35:41 UTC
Couldn't test it on KDE (coz it's borked on this machine for some reason--personal issues), but can confirm that the bug still occurs on Openbox and herbsluftwm. I checked to make sure it was only 4.2.5 doing it on them as well, and that is also confirmed.
Comment 7 Halla Rempt 2019-08-11 09:57:45 UTC
Hm... Then I'm stumped. I don't see this happening on any of my own test systems, running Windows, Linux/Plasma and macOS, with several different wacom tablets and tablet screens :-( And we didn't have any relevant changes between 4.2.4 and 4.2.5 that I can think of.

If you try the tablet tester in krita's settings dialog, does that show the same issue?
Comment 8 BD 2019-08-14 02:16:38 UTC
Sorry for the late reply! I just tried out the tablet tester and unfortunately, just as I predicted, it didn't seem to show the same issue. 

I'm wondering if there's some kind of very subtle difference with 4.2.5 that only negatively effects Mint 19.2 specifically...? Or the other way around-- that my own individual install of Mint 19.2 has something wrong... but both of those sound far-fetched. I'm not a programmer anyway, I'm not going to have logical theories.
Comment 9 wolthera 2020-04-25 10:13:03 UTC
can you check if this is still relevant in 4.2.9? We did a lot of tweaking everywhere, so it might be this got fixed?
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