SUMMARY git e38ce58 When making a new selection there's a short delay before the marching ants appear. But it's faster when there's a existing selection on the canvas. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: Win7 macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Well... That's because the outline object needs to be created the first time.
This was fixed in commit c416124848d52a9b82ef275e24e3aaa1f45a3004 Author: Dmitry Kazakov <dimula73@gmail.com> Date: Wed Apr 29 18:04:36 2020 +0300 Remove 500ms delay between selection creation and cretion of marching ants This delay was originally introduced to not interfere with painting, which (in 2013) was done directly over the ants. Now we have overlay mask functionality, therefore this delay is not needed anymore. There is still a short visible delay. It is cause but the outline genration algorithm is really slow. Perhaps we should also try to fix speed when working on bug 419240. BUG:419738 CCBUG:395861 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 419738 ***