Really tempted to file this in the bugtracker but I'm going to ask here first.

Current situation:  None of my painting tools actually work.  Every time I try 
to use them, GIMP 2.8.4's statusbar tells me "No paint dynamics available".

It's an easy thing to fix locally, and I will be doing that in a moment.  But 
to investigate this a little....

Background:
This is partly my own doing, since I went to GIMP's Folder preferences and 
removed the entry for the default Dynamics folder (because I absolutely need 
dynamics to be adjustable on the fly, and the defaults are currently not).  My 
various tool options (as checked via external text editor) mostly reference 
(dynamics "Pressure Opacity"), which is one of the defaults.  Two tools in 
particular (Paintbrush and Pencil) currently reference (dynamics "Dynamics 
Off"), also one of the defaults.  Of course, since I de-listed that folder from 
my GIMP preferences, those references are no longer valid.

However, to test this a bit further I temporarily renamed my (per-user) 
Dynamics folder and restarted GIMP, effectively causing GIMP to load with 
precisely zero brush dynamics available whatsoever.  As a direct result of this 
action, none of GIMP's painting tools work.
At all.

So to get to the point:  Why can't GIMP just assume that "invalid dynamics 
reference == 'dynamics off' " ?  It can still raise a message in the statusbar, 
but please at least let the tool actually function in the meantime.  Why should 
it need need an external file (Dynamics Off.gdyn) to tell it "no dynamics 
please" when this can just be assumed implicitly?

And is this something to file in the bugtracker?  If it is I will.

-- Stratadrake
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