Have you looked at that plugin? Here: KanvasBuddy - a Minimalist Toolbar
No, actually! I’ve seen it’s announcement times ago but haven’t check it out since I’m actually happy with my layers/brushes layout and barely have a need to dive into canvas-only mode 
I’ll definitely look into it!
Actions for deselect/undo/redo are the most certainly should be buttons so they would be accessible within one click.
About the general toolbox layout thingies I was thinking about something in vein of procreate, they got the most used actions accessible right away with alternative modes hidden behind dropdown menus(even more: sliders and undo/redo are just under the right thumb so the time to tweak those would be minimal).
I’m not a fan of this all-over-the-place layout and think tools should be all in one place(it’s not like they don’t have space on top of those sliders on the right) and yours is a much better design in that aspect, but they certainly had different aspect ratio limitations/thoughts/apple guidelines to care about so no judgement here. But as a reference point for touch-only interface Procreate atm is the most obvious and generally comfy-enough choice/option.
I’ve tested this version a little and have some feedback:
Other that that( and inability atm to deselect all with one click) it’s a huge improvement for a touch-on-a-go workflow, thank you for your work!
(and sorry for spam in a thread)
All good, I appreciate your input!
The retention of settings is something I’m working on, learning how .json files work and all. For double click, I would consider that as another setting.
Have you seen @Rakurri’s explanation on how to disable the right click behaviour?
https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/2X/7/75adea2ddaa812079a0c8f6bb1f4eaddc168dc26.png
I have noticed a problem with Qt on how it treats different displays; if you have dual monitors, the popup only shows on the primary screen, and there are resizing issues on Wacom display tablets.
I’ll have to look if there are some checks I can do, does Kanvas Buddy have popups?
Cheers
I don’t think that kanvas buddy has popups. Everything seems to be retained in the same window, which is resized based on function.
I hope that helps. I’ll have a look at the dual monitor display to confirm for you.
Yep
Confirmed that it seems to work on the primary. Monitor , even though the drawing monitor does not open the groups. Hope this helps.
Have you seen @Rakurri’s explanation on how to disable the right click behaviour?
Yes I have. As I tried to explain earlier(although failed it seems due to my poor english) in my case this windows behaviour is intentional. Unlike Android/iOS and other touch-primary operating systems Windows relies heavily on right-click actions and there is no other way to have them other than this, i.e. simulate those in some way, the easiest be long-press for right click. Therefore disabling it is not an option in my case since surface is a tablet and it should be usable on the go without any other hids.
After many failed attempts, I was on the brink of getting this double-click button working, but once again there seems to be a problem with how Qt handles its showEvent loop for the menu; it changes the position of the menu after a period of time being open.
I think the best alternative is to have a ‘Menu Button’ mode, which toggles this:
That way, you could have both submenu and tool without having to worry about double clicking.
What do you think?
So instead of a double click you have two clicks. Seems like a fair tradeoff to me.
Hi all!
I present to you, ToolKit v1.0.1!
I haven’t gotten to fixing the scaling issues of secondary displays unfortunately, I’ll tackle that next. Have a go and let me know what you think!
Also, the toolbuttons may appear as a different style if you use Linux. I’ve had to use the default ‘fusion’ style because I’m on Windows, which doesn’t have ‘breeze’.
Cheers!
well so far I love the new submenu option versus the double click. It feels very intuitive and no problems fully resposive to my touch. So i have to say it works as designed.
Now I have not tried it on my other configuration since it has a secondary monitor display and your scaling issues are still unresolved. I will wait for your fix for that.
Meanwhile I think your toolkit is having a love affair with kanvas buddy. Since the two of them live all alone on my canvas. 
Question for users with multiple monitors, does the settings dialog box open on your secondary display if Krita is on it?
@Rakurri I have also managed to code in your ‘top alignment’ mode to the settings
You got it to work in Canvas-Only mode!
well kinda… I set it up so that the main menu defaults to show in canvas mode only. From the main menu I turn on toolkit from the docker submenu and kanvas buddy from the script submenu. I assume that’s what @Mythmaker did as well.
Otherwise, in canvas only mode neither kanvas buddy nor toolkit would be available .
I’ve used this for a few days and I have to say that I love it! It’s nice to have all that space freed up in tablet mode 
One isue i’ve noticed: I can’t seem to access submenus because the Windows Ink mechanic on microsoft tablets has it that long-pressing acts as a right-click. Meaning that the current mechanic for opening submenus is impossible without disabling Windows Ink (which would disable things like pen pressure, as far as I know).
If I can suggest a change to alleviate the situation: double pressing a button to open a sub-menu may fix the issue.
If you’ve downloaded v1.0.1, there should be a settings dialog box when you right click on the docker. The second tab of that dialog box, there will be a ‘Submenu Button’ checkbox. Click it, press OK and you should have a separate button for the submenu now .
I did try to have a double click mode, but there was a bug with Qt’s internal delay loop which caused some glitches if enabled.
Cheers
That sounds different to what I did. 
Kanvasbuddy is usually visible on canvas only for me - I just open it from the scripts menu then toggle to canvas only.
The way I got this setup was to uncheck the hide dockers option in canvas only mode, then switched off all the dockers and toolbox, but left toolkit active. I saved this setup as a new workspace so I could easily switch between my standard layout and this new minimal one.
I re-activated the overview docker as an addition because I realised I had no indication of where I was on the canvas, or what the zoom level was - and couldn’t just toggle out to check.
I was going to suggest maybe adding a toggle for reference image visibility - but then I found I could assign a hotkey to that function.
Unfortunately for me kanvas buddy and toolkit don’t stay on canvas only mode for me when i toggle that’s why i keep the menu. Maybe i need to play with the settings a bit.
