Hello Kriters.

After having used Krita for some weeks, I think it is great, and I am going to use it/ and suppor it even more.

This post is just to say an idea about the usage of the eraser mode. Please consider it.



It happens that Krita has a lot of erasers, which is a good thing, but it seems to me that currently, when entering on eraser mode,
is not easy to choose with precision which eraser I want. (And when I choose it, provokes IMHO a non desired behavior)

What happens currently:

When you select and use a preset, and then you press e, to go to eraser mode, it seems that the eraser mode choses some kind of
your drawing preset's counter part.

I have discovered this because, If I select the preset "basic_tip_default", which is a hard brush, and then I press e, the given eraser is hard,
but if I choose the preset "pencil_hb" which is soft, and then I press E, the given eraser then, is also soft.
Its kinda difficult to erase something with this eraser, becaus it erases softly. I mean, at first it clears up the draw, and you have to surpass the surface
a lot of times to completly erase it.


So, if in that moment, I want to select a harder eraser, I have to manually choose a different eraser from the list of presets, which provokes an undesired behavior.

After using that new harder eraser, and pressing E again to return to non-eraser mode, the preset I had selected (pencil hb) gets forgotten, and Krita automatically returns to "basic tip default".
This kills the easyness of the eraser shorcut, to quickly switch between my needed eraser, and my in-use preset, and destroys the full drawing experience.


Without touching anything, one thing works me as an easy fix:
Currently, I can add an specific hard eraser to my preset's favourites, and switch instantly between the hard eraser, and pencil hb, through the wheel.

But to me, this is bad for 2 reasons:
I have to waste a favourite's wheel slot with an eraser, and I am sacrifying the use of the "E" shortcut.





Therefore, I propose a simple addition.

When you press the e, the "eraser mode", could use his custom own wheel of favourite presets. A favourite presets, where you can only have erasers (the five erasers could appear there).
Krita should in this mode, remember wich eraser you choose, and when pressing E, it could switch between non-eraser mode, where it remembers your previously chosen drawing preset, and
eraser mode, where it remembers your previously chosen eraser.

So in resume:
This would make the E shorcut, just work like the / key, but instead of letting you switch between 2 drawing presets, forces you to switch between a drawing and an erasing preset, and also adds a new wheel of favourites: a new one with all the erasers. With this you could choose specifically and with precision, wich eraser you want to switch from, for each situation.

Hi, interesting suggestion. Probably the first part "The brush going back to default flat (no pressure, no nothing) after choosing another eraser preset in eraser mode and going back to paint mode" is a bug. It should probably: A) Go back to previous eraser, hence previous brush in eraser mode, B: Go back to previous brush in painting mode

About the second part:
Two palettes? it could get confusing. Should eraser palette be filled automatically? What happens if you have more than 20 eraser presets in the presets? Should we add a "edit favourite erasers" menu?
Using E is so fast that I have a couple double purpose brushes that can be used to add flat or soft areas of paint, and hitting E quickly change to the eraser mode to Eraser flat or soft areas. I can see however the use of using E to switch between the last used eraser mode preset used and the last paint mode preset used.

I actually wouldn't mind adding a kind of palette flip, that lets you quickly switch between two sets of presets for the palette, it sounds like an interesting idea. But it needs thinking before we can start implementing it.