Right now, I am having trouble eliminating the unused or unneeded brushes. I managed to softbrick Krita by erasing some of the resources the program use within share folder. I only need 3 variant of round brush (outline, generic paint, and generic eraser), 1 circle pixel engine brush, and a filter brush engine, I don’t need anything else. I virtually have zero needs for any other brushes or the additional features.
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You can’t get rid of the large collection of default krita resources becaue they are recreated every time. This is a good thing.
You could try making your own personal bundle that contains only the brushes, brush presets, etc that you want and disable the other bundles in the Resource Manager.
An easier way would be to mark your wanted brush presets with a ‘wanted’ tag and then use the popup palette with tag set to ‘wanted’ as the method for selecting your brushes.
You know, there is a tag feature in krita. Just tag the five brushes you need and then select that tag in the brush docker. Voila, you only see the tagged ones and never get bothered again by the rest. I do something similar with the My Favorites tag. But honestly, from reading your post I get the feeling that Krita is maybe not the right software for you. You probably look for something that is mote like the new MS Paint or Paint-dotNet.
@AhabGreybeard
I managed to get rid of the many brushes by simply making bundles inactive. They never show up anymore. There’s only one minor problem though. I have a X cross in those icon that I want to see disappear as a result. They still work.
The thing is not every artists will want the same thing. In context of painting, I use Krita for vector layer, NDE support, and layer system. Colorize tool is a bonus for making it easier, but not necessary or essential from my standpoint.
Cross on those preset buttons can mean that the presets are there but the predefined brush tips are missing?
I tried to check if it’s possible to deactivate most of the Krita standard brush presets in the resource rewrite branch, a lot of it worked but then my whole Linux froze so… 
(and it’s very time-consuming to do so… it would be better to have some kind of mass management of resources).
Yeah, I think that what it means. I got around it by remaking the brushes from scratch.
I agree that it would be better to have a way to easily manage brushes. Some people like the default brushes, and others are more minimalist in term of brushes like myself. I have 6 brushes, and don’t need much more than that.
This is what I have now:
Like tagging and filtering?
Honestly, I’ve tried many programs and Krita has one of the easiest ways to group and filter brushes yet. There is no need to break the software just to only show your few brushes.
It takes like two minutes to tag your favorite brushes and then select the tag from the drop down so you only see the few you need. No need to uninstall or delete anything.
I didn’t want to group or filter brushes. But, I consider this solved.
Here’s how I solved it.
NOTE: If you break Krita, reinstall it again.
That’s the minimal brushes setup.
EDIT: Forgot to mention: You may want to uncheck to temporary save tweaks to brush preset.
I seriously can’t believe this.
Haven’t you heard of Minimalism ? 
Hey, people, please don’t fight - everyone can use Krita as they wish. If they use Krita to have a daily look at a cute cyber squirrel (she’s called Kiki, btw) at startup, that’s fine too 
I don’t really get it either, but I don’t need to get it. I’d like to know the reason why tagging and filtering wasn’t enough though - @Reptorian, is there any usecase that this kind of workflow wouldn’t work for you? Why do you prefer removing presets and dealing with possible Krita’s misfunctioning?
When I do paint, I just select the brush and that’s all I would like to do when switching brushes, I don’t bother going by filtering or tagging. While it can work for you, I didn’t see the need to do tagging or filtering. I remove presets because I simply don’t need the vast majority of the brush features when I use Krita for other features in context of painting and prefer to see them out of sight and out of mind. Tried the additional ones, didn’t bother in the end when round brush and variants is what I use and always did.
You know you just have to do it only once, right? After creating it, adding your brushes and selecting the tag in the preset docker, it will only show your tagged few brushes like forever. It’s not like you have to repeat the steps every time you start Krita. It takes like two minutes to set up, not even. It’s definitely easier and faster to pull off than what you came up with. But of course do whatever works for you. I just have a hard time understanding this, that’s all.
It’s not hard, I’m just not interested into doing this. Why do I have justify this?
Yeah - I use only a few brushes myself. They’re not the default ones - one is a circle brush that was adjusted to perfection for sketching, with the perfect pressure curve for Wacom Intuos and all, one pixel brush with predefined brush tip for painting and one blender with the same predefined tip that the other brush had, for some rare occasions when the painting brush doesn’t do well. I even released it as a bundle: https://www.deviantart.com/tiarevlyn/art/Tiar-Basic-Bundle-785782750 and for me, tagging was always enough.
@Reptorian my question was mostly because knowing workflows and usecases that cannot be achieved using the current system helps in figuring out how to improve on the system to allow for this kind of usecases. Since we’re rewriting tagging system now, I thought it might be useful to know. I even made this topic a while back: How do you use tags? to learn how people use tagging to not remove any important functionality and maybe not focus on functionality that nobody actually uses.
@tiar just a heads up @Reptorian doesn’t use krita as a painting application but uses it instead as a image manipulation program and they had said that they don’t want painting features in krita on reddit. They also don’t support our vision. So their feedback might be good but we need to keep this bias in mind when considering it.
It kinda sounds like they were better off with Gimp instead. Although it has some painting features my sister swears it is the best program for image manipulation there is.
If you don’t think I use Krita as a painting application solely because I have different perspective, then I would like to let you know that you are misrepresenting my position. I do use it as a multi-purpose software. I don’t recall you seeing some of my paintings with Krita either, and I don’t release them publicly. @tiar has seen it as well as few others. One of the reason I don’t ask for painting features any more is that there’s not much I can see where it can be improved without delaying other features which could be argued to be more impactful (Others may disagree, some do agree).
If GIMP had NDE support, I would not use Krita for any purpose at all.
@tiar Could you please lock this thread? This is going offtopic and it been solved.
Yeah, it’s Solved, it’s going Offtopic and in some dangerous areas. Let’s close it then 
If you have any objections, write to me.
