I can confirm Ingo's PPA using Alexia's disable-history-buffer patch
results in Gimp finally being usable in Oneiric. Tested with a Wacom
Bamboo Pen and Touch and tablet PC.
There may be a slight problem with very light pressure strokes not
coming through (stroke discontinuous) and tool selection
Thank you Alexia.
As I understand it this is a workaround for the bug which would enable
Gimp to work in Oneiric and has a very low chance of causing regressions
in Gimp. All Ubuntu would need to do is add this patch to their Gimp
package to disable the history buffer and release it as an update.
FYI update:
The part where the Desktop was affected by flying windows and being
unable to select things as reported by Matthew Meyer (osarusan) and
trischan (cvargas-z) turned out to be a separate bug from this one.
Triggered by using xsetwacom to set the stylus or eraser to Button 1 1,
which is t
That turns out not to be the case. A Qt bug with similar effects on
Krita and Pencil was fixed shortly before Oneiric came out. See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/+bug/799202 I don't
know if it has been backported to Natty yet.
Notice they deemed this Qt/KDE bug of medium im
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