I like Blender a lot, and don't like Windows, so when I installed Kubuntu, I installed the Blender package, and fired her up, hoping to never have to do any 3D modeling in Windows again. And then I noticed a problem . . .
Blender does not refresh the screen properly.
When you are doing a border selection, it forgets to erase the border marker guidelines until you have finished the selection, which makes object modeling a genuine pain (to try this out, fire up Blender, and with your mouse in the 3D view, press 'Tab', and then press 'B', and move your mouse around). And when resizing the various views, the view edge markers don't erase until you let go of the mouse button, too. This isn't as much of a problem, because it's not often you have to do that, but border selection is an everyday activity, and being able to do it right is very important.
Also, the default cursor set in Kubuntu has a crosshair cursor that looks like a bloated 'X', rather than a +, like it does in Windows. The cursor becomes a crosshair whenever you're using edit mode in Blender, and because using edit mode is a very precise operation, the chunky cursor gets in the way. Happily, since Blender 2.44, Blender uses its own cursor for this, that looks just like the one in Windows, but Blender 2.43 is what comes in the Kubuntu repositories, so unless people install from the Blender website, they're stuck with the big white 'X'. Sadly, though, the newer versions of Blender still have the same erasing problem . . .
So, has anyone else noticed this? Or is it just my computer? Do other distros have the same problem, or is it Kubuntu only? Should I report it as a bug? What do you all think? Let me know!
Blender does not refresh the screen properly.
When you are doing a border selection, it forgets to erase the border marker guidelines until you have finished the selection, which makes object modeling a genuine pain (to try this out, fire up Blender, and with your mouse in the 3D view, press 'Tab', and then press 'B', and move your mouse around). And when resizing the various views, the view edge markers don't erase until you let go of the mouse button, too. This isn't as much of a problem, because it's not often you have to do that, but border selection is an everyday activity, and being able to do it right is very important.Also, the default cursor set in Kubuntu has a crosshair cursor that looks like a bloated 'X', rather than a +, like it does in Windows. The cursor becomes a crosshair whenever you're using edit mode in Blender, and because using edit mode is a very precise operation, the chunky cursor gets in the way. Happily, since Blender 2.44, Blender uses its own cursor for this, that looks just like the one in Windows, but Blender 2.43 is what comes in the Kubuntu repositories, so unless people install from the Blender website, they're stuck with the big white 'X'. Sadly, though, the newer versions of Blender still have the same erasing problem . . .
So, has anyone else noticed this? Or is it just my computer? Do other distros have the same problem, or is it Kubuntu only? Should I report it as a bug? What do you all think? Let me know!
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