https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517156
Bug ID: 517156
Summary: Bug: Trying to enter Shift+I in layer name performs
program function instead of typing... Why are we doing
this to each other?
Classification: Applications
Product: krita
Version First 5.2.16
Reported In:
Platform: Microsoft Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Layers/Vector
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
<rant>
Krita is an embarassment of a project. Pathetically poor output... 25 years and
THIS is the culmination of over TWO DECADES of repeated attempts to produce
something of use?!
It's truly depressing how bad some coders are at the fundamental, most basic
aspects of interface functionality... It's really quite a sad testament to
modern software engineering practices.
A couple of things I encountered in the last hour after trying not to use Krita
for months.
1. Some shifted characters (ie Shift+I) actually can't be entered in a layer
name! (and nobody tested for this?);
2. The manual link brings up the most recent version of the manual and not one
related to the version that requested the manual! You end up trying to find
features that just don't exist;
3. Inconsistent text layer creation. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesnt
(Update: I found that Krita won't add a new text layer if you have a text layer
currently selected!)
I can't even... I am having a hard time accepting that THIS is the current
state of software engineering in 2026... Only AI could produce something things
THIS bad. You can almost get wrapping text inside complex shapes, yet not get
a text field to work without interfering with hotkeys? How on Earth do you get
the simple things so badly wrong?? Where's your focus?? O_o
This project is, I am sorry to say, a waste of my time.
- Random user
</rant>
Pirating a version of Photoshop is STILL a more pragmatic solution - which
produces high quality output with an interface that works - than trying to use
a Krita for any serious design work. And neither trauma learning nor Stokholm
syndrome can make it more useable nor suitable.
I was also unable to submit the full system report Krita asks you to include as
teh web site thinks it's TOO BIG.
Even Shakespeare couldn't write a comedy of errors as anarchic as this project!
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