Flicker with each deletion

[Krikor]

Today I installed Samj's portable version 2.10.32 and after a few minutes of use I noticed a new behavior in this version that doesn't seem normal to me.

Whenever I delete either a layer, a channel or a path everything disappears for a fraction of a second (almost 1 second).

If I have 5 layers and I delete one of them, all layers disappear for a short time, not just the deleted layer. 

Same for channels and paths.

I still have Samj's portable version 2.10.28 installed and in this version when I delete something (layer, channel or path) the rest remains visible. In other words, normal behavior.

Is this a bug in this version (Samj's Portable 2.10.32)?

Are there any tweaks I can try to fix this problem?

Thanks!

[rich2005]

Nothing here in a linux Gimp 2.10.32

You need some other samj 2.10.32 user to confirm (or not) the problem. Looking at the samj release notes, it might be a gegl problem - that is just a guess.

I suggest asking on gimpchat and also pixls.us/ where Sylvie does visit.

[Krikor]

I've noticed better now that this problem happens not only with operations to delete channels, layers or paths, but with any operation that involves these windows.

Merging layers, dragging a layer into or out of a layer group, also makes all layers temporarily disappear.

Just dragging a layer in the layer stack seems to work correctly.

Even creating layer masks, although it doesn't cause the layers to fade, happens slowly.

I will investigate further, but I think the solution will be to uninstall this version and continue with Samj's portable 2.10.28 until the next more stable version is released.

rich2005, thanks for the help!

Edited:
https://imgur.com/C9ei4ps

[rich2005]

Long Shot:
It is not a new setting but in Edit -> Preferences -> Interface there are options for Previews. Two Enable layer...settings. If those are unticked does it make any difference ?

[Krikor]

(06-25-2022, 11:33 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Long Shot:
It is not a new setting but in Edit -> Preferences -> Interface there are options for Previews. Two Enable layer...settings.  If those are unticked does it make any difference ?

By unchecking these options the layers in the layers window lose their images (the preview), they all look the same. However the problem still persists. 

[Krikor]

(06-25-2022, 09:00 AM)rich2005 Wrote: [...]

I suggest asking on gimpchat and also pixls.us/ where Simone does visit.

I asked about it on the blog at https://samjcreations.blogspot.com/ , and was quickly answered. Unfortunately no solution was found.

On the other hand, I just tested the version that I unzipped on the usb flash drive on another PC and luckily the problem did not recur.

The difference is that in the installation made on this PC I used FreeFileSync to transfer some files from version 2.10.28 to version 2.10.32 (patterns, brushes, G'MIC favorites, etc) and I must have done something wrong in this process. 

When installing on the usb flash drive, I didn't make any changes. I unzipped and used Gimp on another PC.

So I'm going to uninstall version 2.10.32 with problem and try to reinstall it from scratch again.