I really enjoy using the brush preset history tool and think it is marvelous however despite clearing the brushes I don’t find useful for the time being; the brushes I use regularly disappear as there is limited space for this tool.
I would be thrilled if this tool could be extended so it saves and stores a much longer list of brushes and their presets. As loosing certain brushes, pencils and other tools I am practicing with makes things quite difficult to navigate when I am still learning all that the program has to offer.
A preferred tool kit feature using the brush history is very much ideal. I am hoping that there is already something that can fix my issue or the brush preset history be extended to store a wider variety of tools rather than just a handful of brushes.
You can create brush preset tags called My-Regulars, Jayne-Fave-Pencils, etc and use tag filtering in the Brush Presets docker or in the popup palette to help you with this aspect of ‘remembering’ brush presets and choosing them.
Please create a separate New Topic in the General Questions category if you need advice about this.
I second this request - should be a very simple thing to do. Such limitations may have made sense when computers had 64KB RAM, not today.
Also, I very much prefer the history over using tags, especially with an ever growing tags list. Having access to the last used brushes is just so much more comfortable. With such a limited number of entries however, I’m often reluctant to test new brushes or check some brush someone else is having trouble with, because my favourites then get pushed out of the list easily.
Allowing more brushes to be remembered is a pretty simple and reasonable request. It’s something I’ve thought about myself, but for some reason I was under the impression it would be more difficult to change.
I’ve now got a patch working that adds a “Configure Number of Brushes Shown…” option to the Brush Preset History context menu, which calls up an input dialog to set the number. So I’ll try to submit it for review soon.
And that, of course, has obviously nothing to do with why there’s a limit…
I implemented this in 2015 and asked people whether there should be a limit, and they were like, ten should be fine, with more the list will get unwieldy and hard to use. Sure, we can increase the limit, or remove the limit altogether (though then we’ll need a better way of storing the recently used presets in Krita’s settings).
But all it takes is changing PresetHistoryDock::addPreset.
I figured as much - guess, I should’ve put a smiley there… Sorry, if it came across as snarky
A suggestion to make all people happy: distinguish between presets shown and presets saved. In other words, save (many) more presets than are shown in the list, so that those that have been pushed out of the list, will reappear after newer presets have been removed manually.
