So I really like Krita. I like both Gimp and Krita. I'm just having such a hard time using it because of the stack selection or lack thereof. I know, there are workarounds! "This isn't Photoshop" they say. But that's exactly what people on Linux are wanting and missing. Neither Gimp nor Krita offers easy stack selection and grouping of layers. So, I gotta ask, why? Is it an X11 issue or a design perspective?

If it is an X11 issue, stop here and read no more.

If it's a design perspective, I just don't see what is gained. As a professional, I don't just want, I NEED to be able to consolidate my layers quickly. No form of linking layers or dragging them one by one is going to help. This is one of a few major reasons why you can't get people on Gimp or Krita from Photoshop. Granted, people say that Krita is used more as a painting application, but I don't see why it couldn't be expanded for use by production artists. So great, you can set group folders. You can do that in Photoshop too! Not only that, you can select an entire stack in the layers pallette and hit ctrl-g and it groups all your layers together.

So what's the deal? It's really disappointing to see all these applications have these super complicated brush systems and manipulation tools and then to see something that seems so simple but super useful, like stack selection, not working.

Stack selection is already in the 2.9 development version