Re: [Gimp-user] UI drag and drop issues prevent layer reorder or dialog tab reorder

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de> wrote:
> On 07.12.2013 20:01, kzibart wrote:
>
> > > Hmmm.... ok well tell us if this reappears. And if you can find any
> > > specific reproduction procedure or hint at how to make it fail would
> > > help. But right now, I have no idea.
>
> > Well, the issues returned today, and I was able to capture them on video:
>
> > After capturing the video, just before submitting this reply, I noticed that
> > everything was working again.  I hadn't even closed GIMP.  It was the same
> > session that I used to capture the video of the issues.  Dragging layers,
> > reordering tabs, clicking tools, all are working again.
>
> We've got two bug reports with these symptoms:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710009
>
> That one has originated from forums threads on gimpwerkstatt.de and
> gimpforum.de. It may be Windows 8-specific, and some of the research
> suggests that it could be related to some driver (as it doesn't happen
> in safe mode). No real cause has been determined yet, though.
>
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719547
>
> There isn't much information there yet. The mention of a problem with
> similar symptoms on an "old computer" could mean that this is is a
> different bug, or that the problem is not limited to the most recent
> Windows versions.
>
> No fixes are available yet, although the bug reports mention some
> workarounds. Maybe one of the workarounds will help to narrow down the
> cause, too.
>
>
> There have been reports about an influence of screen recording and
> capture applications Camtasia and SnagIt, maybe because they intercept
> windowing or mouse events. I have asked the affected users to contact
> that vendor (TechSmith in both cases) and make them aware of the
> problem, but I've not seen any feedback so far.

Michael may be on to something. It didn't work while you were
recording a screencast, but it did as soon as you stopped the
screencast. Maybe your screencast program intercepts some mouse
events.
Of course I imagine you don't use the screencast software every day.
So the question is: why doesn't it work these times? Well maybe it
also installed a service always run in background? In any case, could
you try this again:
1/ run the screencast program, check that dnd does not work.
2/ quit the screencast program, check that dnd works.

If you can reproduce this every time, then there is probably a very
good lead to follow there.

Jehan

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> Michael
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