Bug 337380 - When using Selection Tools, make right-click to bring up the content in Menu>Select
Summary: When using Selection Tools, make right-click to bring up the content in Menu>...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: krita
Classification: Applications
Component: Usability (show other bugs)
Version: 2.9 Beta
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: Krita Bugs
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Reported: 2014-07-11 16:17 UTC by Tyson Tan
Modified: 2017-09-05 23:57 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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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