Hi, "Adam D. Moss" <adam@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > When I move the mouse in circle slowly, the drawing is detailed. > > But when I move the mouse fast, the drawing is polygonal. > > Is the reason in mouse interface or in X, or both? > > Somewhat the mouse interface, and somewhat because we simply drop > (compress) mouse motion events at the gdk/gimp level if we're > running behind. The 'Perfect-but-slow pointer tracking' option is > supposed to stop that from happening ... "perfect-mouse" is the default setting in GIMP 2.0. Filtering jitter in order to get smoother drawings has been suggested before (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55366). But except for the cleanups in the paint core that should make it easier to implement such a thing, no code has yet been written to implement this. Sven
