[macos] I have to unfocus and refocus Krita to make the old tab work when opening a new document via drag n drop

It’s really the fifth time since I heard about Krita that I decided to install it after uninstalling through frustration. This time I want to finally resist uninstalling and instead ask for help to handle this software and I decided to post here about my frustration with this software, whenever it occurs, so hopefully devs will pick these issues up or someone informs me what I am doing wrong, so I can finally work with Krita, because Krita is my biggest hope to avoid cracking PS once and for all.

2022-02-16 4.05.27 PM

If I drag in two images while using the select tool and going back to the first image, I cannot select anything until I unfocus and refocus the entire app. Does anybody experience the same, am I doing something wrong?

I appreciate any reply, thanks in advance.

Hello and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

Which version number of krita are you using and what operating system?

I don’t have a problem doing this with 5.0.2 on Linux.

What happens if you use File → Open to open each image file?

Thank you for welcoming me. :slight_smile:

I’m using macOS 12.1 (21C52), Krita 5.0.2 (brew install --cask Krita).

When I manually open files as you suggested the problem will not appear. It’s very unfortunate that Krita is providing an own file open selector, the native one of Finder would be a better choice imho. I cannot even open folders by typing them, but I don’t mind as long as dragging files in would work reliably.

Welcome to the forum @martin-braun. I wish I could help - I’m on Linux and don’t experience the same thing. Don’t give up. Krita is such a great app.

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Settings > Confoigure Krita > Miscellaneous
Check option “Enable native file dialog” maybe…?

Not sure if available for macOs :thinking:

Grum999

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Don’t have the problem too.

Could it be a bug on macOs?

@IvanYossi or @halla may help on this case…

Grum999

I know close to nothing about Macs but maybe the official .dmg will work:
Krita Desktop | Krita

or here:
https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.0.2/krita-5.0.2.dmg

If not then a bug report will probably be needed, unless the native file dialog works.

I can confirm this is an issue, Only on the last added document the actions work until you switch applications. Could you report a bug? Log in to KDE Bugtracking System

The second issue: We now enable native Finder dialog for file selection. Since this is not your first time using krita the old dialog is set in your preferences, to change it go to Krita > Settings > Miscellaneous and set “Enable Native File Dialogs”

From what I see the brew recipe you are using downloads the latest stable version from https://cdn.download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.0.2/krita-5.0.2.dmg, which probably gives you the same version from the site, but if in doubt download from krita.org.

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Thanks for that. I can use the native file dialog now, which is very handy. The bug is still present, though.

I was looking for that site, thanks: 450416 – Dragging in documents will lock old documents so no actions can be performed until the application gets switched

Also if the version string matches on brew, I really expect the whole binary to match (or shouldn’t I?), what is the point in using brew if I have to download it from kde to confirm issues anyways? I got the strange feeling that this wasn’t my last bug report, but I will just ask if I hit a wall before losing my mind once again. :joy:

Thanks for all your fast replies, very helpful.

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