Hi all,
First let me say that i love krita, i am moving in from photoshop and never be so happy to do it, even if i lost some of my favourite things..
i would like to discuss with you my own way to see the shortcut as way to improve the software and the work.
I know that for me as new user is pretty simple change things but for more older user all this may sound like a madness..
Even if it is so , let me know if there are any other shortcut you use often that i missed that could be in...

Here is the image https://ibb.co/cmbvqn (the forum errore say that : was not possible to determine the dimension of the image)

I write down a couple of reason and motivation for this discussion.
1) improve the locally usable shortcuts . Basically , abandon short like B for brush G for gradient and place the tools and filters in a reasonable order.
For example i decided that with "Shift" i will access to all the Selection tools and changes.... "Upper" button grow selection and "Lower" buttons shrink selection......
Now all my selection shortcut are under my hand and in a recognizable order.
2) Be more efficient
This too my look a bit insane, but think about the common "Switch background foreground color " how much time it save you?
Example: i often have to hit the enter on the other side of my keyboard move away one hand to hit that button and go back
In years of softwares i never used Capslock, even if is one of the most usable buttons on keybord... is just there but never used.. so i used ATNsoft to use it like a enter
3)abandon strange heritage
Discovering the features of krita and taking notes i found out that i need more buttons
so my attention fell on the "Alt" key, normally this key too is unusable too his binding with windows (i am not sure) that make him call the menu underlined voices.
But why keep a whole "modifier key" just to call File?
So i switch alt too with the second alt , now under the "Alt" i can store the whole color shortcuts...

Thanks for your time

The order of the shortcuts seems to follows some conventional layouts, changing that frustrates more people than not, is very tasking coming from another software and learn the new layout, not to mention when you go back and forward. Obviously it doesn't means that the layouts are perfect, they are just there to cover the way the majority of users use them.

I would say, if you find and elaborate a very good layout, you can then save it and share it with the community, that would be cool, as those in the same dilemma as you may benefit from it. importing and changing layouts in Krita is rather easy, and this is because one style doesn't fit all, I get what you say, I (although very different from yours) made all my favorite tools/functions on the left side of the keyboard for easy access, but I know that is unlikely to be similar from anyone else.

Quiralta wrote:The order of the shortcuts seems to follows some conventional layouts, changing that frustrates more people than not...

Thanks for reply

I agree with you with the most of what you have said.
Never the less i wish krita get a second step forward other softwares... ( just now already is a step forward ).

When you start a new software you just keep focus on learning how it works
its really impossible try to fix and adapt the software to you when you dont know the most of it.
After a few weeks you get enough of it to adapt but now you are "attached" to what you just learned
and still is hard change one thing because you have to reorganize the whole system.
So i think is "our" job try to offer a working model that a new user can adopt.

Right now i am using an unstable copy of krita 4 , when it will be released i will surely try to share my custom stuff.
I think that will be great for new users get a quick and working list of shortcut to speed up their path.

Do you know something interesting ? Example:
I discovered some days ago one wonderful shortcut
Edit > Stroke selection will give you the chance to stroke the selection with the brush you have selected in the tool.

Quiralta wrote:The order of the shortcuts seems to follows some conventional layouts, changing that frustrates more people than not...

What I meant is that for example, people coming from Photoshop, they will be accustomed to that layout, thus Krita offers a "photoshop scheme" that you can select on the shortcut section, thus the transition is smooth, but since there is plenty of programs people used before, using the most "conventional" is simply practical. Reinventing the wheel here will not be too productive.

Although is clearly not your case (or many of us who feel at ease with Krita), reality is most people are very reluctant to "adapt" or learn new layouts, (thus Krita's default's follow that of other programs at some degree), also a very technical person would rather a different layout to a person who only sketches or paints, etc. as most used tools vary from style and workflow.

The good thing is that as you now know, changing not only shortcuts but full layouts (schemes) is not only easy but quite an asset. Krita 4 is almost out of the oven by the way, except for a very few technicalities, for everyday painting is really stable (even before, I've been using it since its creation as I build almost daily), thus enjoy and customize at will