Believe it or not, several years ago it was even worse. I believe it has something to do with the hotkey target not switching to the canvas on entry, but rather after a significant delay. It did improve in 2019 when the delay was reduced, but it’s still pretty bad.
Relevent bug report that should probably be reopened.
I’ll open another thread and tag y’all in it to keep this one clean.
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I just wish “Normal” blending was the first one.
I know there’s an action to select it, but I already have more keyboard shortcuts than I can recall faster than just doing it with clicks…not to mention the default “Alt+Shift+N” must’ve been chosen by someone who wishes you a hand injury… 
And I agree the canvas focus for handling canvas input actions is quite an annoyance, by now it pretty much became a quirk to routinely pan the canvas with stylus button a bit before even thinking about what to do next…just to be sure any other shortcut I may use before actually putting down the stylus doesn’t do something weird I didn’t want to do.
But that’s really a separate issue…and not trivial to fix, I’m afraid.
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Another mock layout to consider:
K so hovering search shows both search bar and next to it a tag button that are essentially easy keywords to search for too.
You would edit the favorites from within Krita settings.
Favorites are shown by clicking the Normal (current active mode) button.
And also from Krita’s settings you would edit which modes appear in what tag you created. The current expandable categories would be pre-created tags out of the box that you can delete and restore.
You could also perhaps sort order of the tags and size of text. If large add a wide scroll down button/then up button along the bottom of the tag “div” container
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I suggested some changes for the Blendmode Dropdown a while ago:
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My favorite mockup in this thread 
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I agree with that! I really miss the separators and grouping in the blending modes.
And I, too, have questions about the need for so many blending modes. Exotic blending modes are not easy to use in real work, when you need a specific result and not just a play with options
Maybe I’m wrong, are there people here who use exotic modes all the time in their work?
Not all the time, but there are situations where I’m happy to have these seldom used modes, and therefor I would be very happy if they are also there in the future, to have them in the future.
It is better to have, than to need!
Michelist
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Everyone has a small subset of blend modes they use most frequently, and a large set of blend modes they rarely or never use. Instead of hiding everything in categories and searchboxes and subwindows, why not hide only the less-used blend modes?
Provide the whole list and let the user deactivate the blend modes they don’t want. User preferences could have a list of each blend mode with a checkbox. If the checkbox isn’t checked, that blend mode is disabled entirely. Disabled blend modes simply don’t show up.
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I use some non-standard blending mode like Flat Light as replacement to grain merge, Fog Lighten/Fog Darken for clone brushes as it’s good for fixing up areas in the standard 8-bit RGBs, and I do like the occasional experiments with Binary mode or the occasional time of using Modulo mode to manipulate grayscale gradient before mapping with gradient map. I wouldn’t be opposed to hiding those options, but I think there should be ways to have a option to have them show up all the time and to hide them as well.
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I would love it if this was fixed! I recently switched my brush resize key to ’s’ and now I’m constantly working on layers set to ’saturation’ 
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For these, does this involve rendering a live preview when hovering over one of the blend modes with the cursor (without having to click it first to change the blend mode)?
I like this one too, but I think these flyout menus should be optional.
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I would prefer there to be a checkbox button to switch the entire menu to the favourites or the flyouts. That way, you can still use a condensed list by default and if you need to look for something, tap the button and it’ll transform the menu to this one with all the flyouts. If you usually only use the favourites, it is helpful to only display them (like it is now) so you don’t have to use the submenu all the time (but only when you need to).
So perhaps, if you click on the star for the favourites, it expands the favourites as a dropdown. -
Or you could sort the list by type of blend mode (overlay, darken, lighten, etc.) and have the various different versions of each available in the flyout. You can click on the item to get the one you favour/ the one that is most applicable by default and you can use the flyout to get a different version.
Discussion for the canvas shortcut capture has been moved to its own thread, it may help visibility to reply there that you’re suffering the same problem.