I haven't downgraded yet, since I am still in the middle of my next fan art piece, and don't want to chance having an unusable GIMP during that.
However, I have seen undo levels not work before, while switching between the pen and the eraser, causing my hand touching the tablet surface to create a click with whatever tool was assigned to the mouse. So if the mouse input erased or inked a part, that momentary action can't be undone, but actions caused by the tablet are perfectly visible in the undo history.
I have kept the mouse assigned to the eye dropper while using the tablet ever since. That much seems more like a bug than a memory leak, and even when working with projects that used 1GB of memory, I've never experienced a leak. GIMP 2.8 has been pretty stable for me.
K1TesseraEna wrote:
If 1 solves the issue, then 2.8's partially broken tablet support is to blame [note that 2.6.x did not have this issue].
You may not have experienced this problem in previous 2.8 releases, but....
There are always some API changes between the versions of GIMP. The developers may have
fixed some 2.8.6 nasty bugs but accidentally broken something else in 2.8.8-10.
GIMP does this on me while I use the mouse for plotting out background details as well, so it might not be the tablet's fault directly. I also have to mention again that the selection boundary is visible in other tabs besides the first, but refuses to show up on the main canvas. I have my bets on something breaking.
It's a good thought going to bugzilla, so I will consider that and hope the developers will know what's up. In the meantime, I most likely will have to downgrade if I can't figure out why it's doing that.
molly wrote:
After two more posts MrGlaceon, you will be able to post your URL.
Thanks for letting me know! I wasn't sure if it would be ten posts or more before I could do that.
Since my workspace simplifies most of the interface, this is what it usually looks like :
http://sta.sh/01ayk9l5ccuo