Line tool is not drawing lines, but boxes?

This is like so many other features that Adobe destroys unnecessarily.

I remember 20 years ago, having a positive feeling seeing that splash image while photoshop was opening. Now it's a range from annoyance to pure rage.

Problem is a lot of users also have to deal with developers in their jobs and they know how these people operate. It's all about manipulative devs inside these companies trying to carve out their permanent spot making 200k+. It's not about the user or functionality, it's about creating a new feature they can slap their own name on and cement their place in the company. The name of the game is "sticky" deployments, things that create dependencies, force users into new workflows which you just so happen to have more solutions for.  It's about greed of individuals, and corporations that have subscription models and don't feel the pain when an update pisses everyone off.

These dead eyed non-feeling creatures have one m. o.  - If it aint broke, break it..then present a solution that digs its tentacles as far in as possible

Anyone remember when we lost the pixel output of the line tool? And we complained and got it back? Maybe we can do it again 🙂

Hey Pu Koh, I figured it out. Mine was doing the same thing so I played with the settings. The guy below is kinda right, the quick and easy answer is, go all the way to the right and find the box for weight. Make sure it says 1. That's it. 😉 

My problem is that I'm trying to use the line tool to make a dashed line, but since it's a box it creates this weird overlapping thing which is not what I want at all. I feel like it never used to do this. I've worked with PS for a long time but maybe I'm thinking of Illustrator....

Hi, Pu Koh. Not sure if you actually found a resolution after all this time, but I did. Reset Line Tool. I was drawing lines just fine (no "boxing") then all of a sudden... box. [ Cursing removed by moderator ]. I went searching. This fixed my problem: For the record, the prior "assistance" offered in this thread was clearly someone trying to be waaaay to philosophical about geometry and not understanding you very simple, very annoying, problem, which I, too, just experienced. Hope it helps. Happy Photoshopping. 🙂 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-do-i-get-my-line-tool-back/td-p/9244739 

»Has this always been the case?«

Yes. 

»or is this a bug.«

No. 

Apparently you are using an inside Stroke. 

What setting are set: Path|Shape|Pixels, weight ,start, end, etc? A line is a box