Bug 406149

Summary: Use Erase in place of Eraser for better consistency
Product: [Applications] krita Reporter: Tyson Tan <tysontanx>
Component: UsabilityAssignee: Krita Bugs <krita-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: griffinvalley, halla
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: nightly build (please specify the git hash!)   
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Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tyson Tan 2019-04-02 13:42:49 UTC
I was translating Krita's user manual and found in some place we use Erase, the others Eraser. This is an issue because:

1) Krita doesn't have an Eraser tool.
2) We mentioned in the user manual that we use Erase blending mode for that.
3) We don't have much space under Brush Settings drop-down panel (F5).

For the sake of consistency, I suggest we use Erase / Erase Mode to replace every Eraser labels on:

#: krita/krita.action:366 krita/krita.action:368
#: plugins/paintops/libpaintop/forms/wdgCompositeOpOption.ui:81
#: libs/ui/forms/wdgpaintopsettings.ui:667
#: libs/ui/forms/wdgpaintopsettings.ui:686
Comment 1 Halla Rempt 2019-04-03 07:40:48 UTC
1: "Set eraser mode" -- that is correct, "set erase mode" seems weird English to me.
2: That one is difficult because the meaning of that button is that it turns the preset into an eraser preset. The manual isn't very clear on this, and there really should be a tooltip about it. I'll add one, but I think that Eraser is correct here.
3 and 4: same thing, I guess. The meaning is "if this preset is an eraser (erase is switched on), it will track different values." The alternative would be something like "use different size in erase mode" and "use different opacity in erase mode", but that would make the text too long.
Comment 2 Halla Rempt 2019-04-03 07:40:59 UTC
Git commit 98320060ab0284097c5d9bc1471919024c83981b by Boudewijn Rempt.
Committed on 03/04/2019 at 07:37.
Pushed by rempt into branch 'master'.

Add a tooltip to the Eraser button in the blending mode preset option page

The Eraser button doesn't seem to be described in the manual, and it isn't
entirely clear what this does: this is my best guess.

CCMAIL:kimageshop@kde.org

M  +3    -0    plugins/paintops/libpaintop/forms/wdgCompositeOpOption.ui

https://commits.kde.org/krita/98320060ab0284097c5d9bc1471919024c83981b
Comment 3 wolthera 2019-04-08 14:08:02 UTC
setting this to wishlist for now.