On Feb 7, 2009, at 9:23 AM, bulia byak wrote:

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine

<alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:

And here is another point --- Eraser tool doesn't need a selection to

work on, while Subtract mode needs one.


I think the ability to restrict its action to a selection is an

advantage, not to mention it is more consistent with the way all other

tools work. Pressing Ctrl+A is easy, and each tool that wants a

selection but gets none reports so in the statusbar, so it's hard to

miss.


What I've observed is that for a majority of users this actually causes more confusion.

Also the fact that despite a selection being pertinent, the default is to hide selections also adds to the confusion.

And at least for new users, it is quite easy to not catch reports in the statusbar.