Hi all! I’m very pleased to announce that the gap closing patch has been accepted to master today.
As usual, big thanks to @dkazakov for the review and many others for valuable comments.
We had to make some compromises and the feature is certainly not perfect, but it’s a start. I hope it will already be useful to everyone who’s been waiting for it for so long 
Here are the temporary builds from master. Eventually, they will be available in Nightly builds (um, when they get restored!).
- Windows - Artifacts · windows-build (#1603482) · Jobs · Graphics / Krita · GitLab
- Linux - Artifacts · linux-build (#1603481) · Jobs · Graphics / Krita · GitLab
Again, the current features are:
- gap closing up to 32 pixels - larger gaps will be ignored (check the resolution!)
- only the bucket fill and magic wand selection tools are supported (i.e. no enclose and fill)
- look in the UI for a “Close Gap” slider. Values larger than 0 will attempt to close gaps. Set it back to 0 if you don’t need this feature, as it comes with a performance penalty.
If you have a chance to test it and run into a problem, feel free to tag me in your post. I hope we didn’t miss any bugs in the last minute as this one did see a significant churn over time…
Thank you! 