@RandamuMaki AFAIK Gimp devs explicitly decided to target different usecases than krita.

@davidrevoy @GIMP @Krita

@RandamuMaki I recall the dev are reworking the base system to be more modern, so it can be expanded more efficiently without hacky code.

Some design apps also did this, like Clip Studio Paint and Affinity suites.

@RandamuMaki @davidrevoy @Krita if a shape tool were the only metric for success, the GFIG plug-in (filters/render/Gfig) would put us twenty years ahead...

However, it isn't a race. If you prefer Krita that's fine, they're really nice people doing good work.

@Neotheta Here is a base rigg that you can do once and then save as a template:

- The group 1 contains the vector panels, and the group 2
- The group 2 inherit alpha (so you paint only inside Vector Layer 3 shapes), then you draw, paint, line-art freely in group 2
- On top of the stack, a clone layer of Vector Layer 3, in Multiply mode to redraw the panel border line.

@nshiell My main is a XpPen Artist Pro 19 (gen2) on Linux Debian 12 Plasma X11, my PC is a AMD Ryzen 7 3700X , with 32GB ram and a Sapphire Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB.

But you can find more about all the things I test on my blog, tag hardware: https://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?tag/hardware