Tool Option on Dock won’t work
Running on a Macbook Pro, High Sierra. GIMP 2.10.4
I’m having an issue when I want to edit my photographs. Most of what I do is color adjustments, which gimp has worked mostly well (still a slow canvas redraw, but faster than the 2.8 vs I was using prior. yes, I’ve adjust my cache size, it does not fix this problem. I edit large photos, 5194x3457 pix, but that problem might not ever go away for me). That’s not why I’m making this report. Just giving background info on what I use gimp for.
Every now and then, I’ll need to use paintbrushes or the eraser (probably 1 out of every 3-4 photos I edit). It will not let me adjust any of my tool settings/options on the toolbox dock. My layers doc works just fine, but for some reason all of the tool settings are locked and I can not adjust them. I can change tools, and they work, but only on the setting they are already set on. On occasion, it’ll let me change it, but it is very rare. It won’t let me change brushes, check or Uncheck boxes, change brush size, etc.
I just recently came back to using gimp this last year (I used to use much older versions 4-5 years ago). Never had major issues such as this one. I really like gimp, it’s a powerful program, but this is a little frustrating. I don’t know enough about reporting bugs or code to send you anything else though. So if you need more info or would like anything else to assist in figuring the problem out (maybe it’s something simple and I have a setting wonky somewhere or something?), I’d be more than happy to submit other things. I don’t know what would help the best in this situation since gimp isn’t recognizing an error/bug issue to give me a code to give you that I’m aware of.
I may have to step back to 2.8 (canvas redraw is so incredibly slow it’s miseravle to wait 30 seconds for me to redraw the canvas just to see if I want a layer opacity to change (then if I decide I need more or less transparency on something line that, it’s another 30 seconds to redraw every little setting change). But I don’t know what to do if basic tool options can even be adjusted in 2.10.
I know you all work very hard. Thank you for working to make this program awesome. I appreciate all your efforts!
-Kayla