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I have recently switched my workflow to Linux, with LibreOffice in place of MSOffice, Inkscape in place of Illustrator, and now Krita in place of my ever beloved Clip Studio Paint. During my switch, I had this lingering problem regardless of which distro I pick where I find things lacking. KDE Plasma in general has very crusty and dull animation sets and possibly the most rage-inducing default panel, theme and icon set—while Gnome lacks a proper file picker and a modern design overall. This is the same with KDE software and Gnome software.

Despite being a KDE project—which all have an abominable amount of customizeability, Krita lacks a ton of features for customizations. Thus, I'd like to spill out things that I may have missed back from Clip Studio aswell as new features that I have god forsaken wished existed a long time ago.

#1 Rearrangeable Toolbox/bar
Yes, this is from Clip Studio aswell as Illustrator. It allows me to rearrange tools the way they make sense to me. It would also be a delight if we could put tools in a folder like all the rulers and select tools that do similar things with just a different twist. It would make the tools fit properly on small tablet screens like in my case.

#2 Dark and Light Theme button-and-slider
Again, from Clip and Illustrator, there should be two options for light and dark, and a slider at the very bottom from how light or dark the mode should be. Now, I know that Plasma enables theming Krita but for other distros and windows/mac, nothing works great. Developers should make this feature disable itself when Krita detects that it is installed on Plasma or atleast make a viable way to easily install a theme to Krita directly. Also please update Krita to have modern flat design like srsly
What I'm talking about: https://snipboard.io/qJDKwo.jpg (Designed by me hehe)

#3 Iconify and collapse docked panels
This feature is in Clip and Illustrator, where on top of the docked panels, regardless the amount, will have two buttons. The first button is a single-arrow and the second button a double-arrow. The first button iconifies the panels (turns all panels into icons) while the second button completely folds the panels and hides them until you click the double-arrow button again. Clicking the iconified panel with make a pop-up panel that is always-on-top. This feature set is most convenient for small screens and REALLY GREAT for compact devices as this is the same approach Clip Studio uses for it's mobile/tablet version.

I'm kinda open for a KDE theme redesign too