Bug 337380

Summary: When using Selection Tools, make right-click to bring up the content in Menu>Select
Product: [Applications] krita Reporter: Tyson Tan <tysontanx>
Component: UsabilityAssignee: Krita Bugs <krita-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: halla, scottpetrovic
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.9 Beta   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tyson Tan 2014-07-11 16:17:47 UTC 
In current Krita, right-clicking on canvas, no matter which tool are in-use, brings up the Popup Palette. In design philosophy, a right-click is supposed to bring up something relevant to the context. When the brush tool is in-use, this behavior makes sense. However, when the Selection Tools are in-use, this is a different story: the popup Palette has nothing to do with Selection Tools, it's completely irrelevant. Users have to venture the whole screen to Menu>Select to do whatever in the right-click menu in Adobe Photoshop. This is not intuitive, and I keep adding a toolbar icon of deselect because of it.

I suggest when we are using Selection Tools, right-clicking on the canvas brings up the Select menu, which has at least the first group of actions from the "Menu>Select" menu. This will greatly improve the usability of the selection tool and is more intuitive, more friendly to Adobe Photoshop users.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Tyson Tan 2014-07-12 05:47:59 UTC 
Or, at least add "deselect" and "invert selection" to the Tool Options docker when Selection Tools are in-used.
Comment 2 Halla Rempt 2016-01-24 11:06:58 UTC 
WISHGROUP: Larger Usability Fixes
Comment 3 Scott Petrovic 2017-09-05 23:57:15 UTC 
Just pushed out some changes that brings up a context menu for the selection tools. There are quite a few to choose from...and easy to modify if we want to change later.

https://cgit.kde.org/krita.git/commit/?id=4cbd177ddea85a405b5640c5874119947a1e4e83

https://phabricator.kde.org/D7412