Fill tool, Fill with foreground color and Fill with background color doesn't work if the brush tool is set to eraser mode. Any eraser preset or any brush with the eraser mode turned on blocks the Fill Tool functionality. Actually it does not block the tool, it fills the entire canvas with an eraser and deletes everything. That could be useful but It is not intuitive nor productive for the fill tool to behave that way, we already use the delete shortcut for that. Reverting the Brush to normal mode fixes the problem.
Actually, this is a feature I use myself :) Maybe, we might consider if there's a way for us to notify the user the erase blending mode is in use?
I guess a warning is enough. It took me a while to understand what was happening as the canvas was already transparent and I had no feedback. On a more important topic I had a couple crashes, wish I could help but they were random and I don't know how to report. Is there a tutorial for that? To deal with this issue many programs have an option to automatically send a report with the data you need for debugging.
Maybe we should bite the bullet and do for blending mode what I just did for opacity; make it a per-tool setting.
(In reply to Boudewijn Rempt from comment #3) > Maybe we should bite the bullet and do for blending mode what I just did for > opacity; make it a per-tool setting. I think that would be a nice UI polish. Most people would expect the Fill Tool to fill with color instead of erasing everything.
changing this to confirmed since it is a wish list item
Just struggled with this problem for a good few minutes yesterday before I remembered this report. Might have been longer without this. Definitely wishing for the fill tool to be independent of the brushes or at least be so by default.