SUMMARY When a layer is hidden, other tools in Krita will treat it as locked and refuse to draw on the hidden layer. The new Text Tool does not follow this behavior. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create a new document and select the Text Tool 2. Add a new vector layer, select it and toggle it's visibility to 'hidden' 3. Click on the canvas a few times 4. Unhide the vector layer to reveal that placeholder text objects have been added
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2689
Git commit 4ddea07e2e8c8a27c08659320c69afd1c37ad90a by Wolthera van Hövell. Committed on 11/03/2026 at 11:44. Pushed by woltherav into branch 'master'. Allow SVG text tool to check whether it can edit the layer. M +1 -12 libs/ui/tool/kis_tool.cc M +20 -0 libs/ui/tool/kis_tool_utils.cpp M +8 -0 libs/ui/tool/kis_tool_utils.h M +19 -0 plugins/tools/svgtexttool/SvgTextTool.cpp M +7 -0 plugins/tools/svgtexttool/SvgTextTool.h https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/commit/4ddea07e2e8c8a27c08659320c69afd1c37ad90a
Git commit 950c896078118fa1325fe80f2a86a317f9b0a51f by Wolthera van Hövell. Committed on 11/03/2026 at 11:45. Pushed by woltherav into branch 'krita/6.0'. Allow SVG text tool to check whether it can edit the layer. (cherry picked from commit 4ddea07e2e8c8a27c08659320c69afd1c37ad90a) 1257d3b5 Allow SVG text tool to check whether it can edit the layer. b9654cb1 Fix identation, add a little bit of documentation. Co-authored-by: Wolthera van Hövell <griffinvalley@gmail.com> M +1 -12 libs/ui/tool/kis_tool.cc M +20 -0 libs/ui/tool/kis_tool_utils.cpp M +8 -0 libs/ui/tool/kis_tool_utils.h M +19 -0 plugins/tools/svgtexttool/SvgTextTool.cpp M +7 -0 plugins/tools/svgtexttool/SvgTextTool.h https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/commit/950c896078118fa1325fe80f2a86a317f9b0a51f