Hi Brynn, you're obviously free to make the feature request, but I'm not sure the solution you propose is the best one.
From a first-time user point of view I think that having all circles with a
fixed style and all rectangles with another fixed one may be confusing. Then he may learn how to go inside the configuration window and change those fixed styles (and say: "Ooh, what's that use-last-style wonderful option?" :) ) but in the meantime he's bound to change the style of every object he draws. My mind is probably stuck with my workflow, but I really can't see any usefulness of such a per tool fixed configuration.
The point for new users is to understand that they _first_ have to draw, _after_ they can change the style. And this is what is discussed in this thread: it is a counterintuitive way of working. IMHO fixing the style is just a way to hide this problem under the carpet (which can be both a good and a bad thing with new users). So the proposals to change the current behavior into _first_the_style_ (and being able to clearly see the current one) and then _draw_ would achieve the double objective of making happy what seems to be a lot of current users while improving the friendliness of the interface toward inexperienced users.
This is what in my understandings is the link between your first request and the following posts, not something completely unrelated as you may have thought.
Luca
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