Eraser tool enhancements

[ScislaC]

There are four enhancements to the eraser tool which would make it more useful.

1) A toggle button to automatically break apart the shape.

2) A toggle between the current "rectangular" eraser and a "round" eraser (the equivalent of roughly 1.40 of Cap Rounding on the Calligraphy tool).

3) The ability to change angle of the rectangular eraser as you could do with a physical one (with tilt support).

4) Optional pressure sensitivity for artistic reasons (as well as you could do this with a physical eraser too depending on the shape of it and how hard you press).

[jack_spratt (jack-spratt)]

I would also like to see these sort of improvements :)

[Rafa Colunga (rafa-sinuhe)]

i'd like these too!!

About the second point:

"
2) A toggle between the current "rectangular" eraser and a "round" eraser (the equivalent of roughly 1.40 of Cap Rounding on the Calligraphy tool).
"
I'd much better like the ability to chose an arbitrary shape for the eraser, similar to how you can choose a shape from the clipboard in the pen tool (and if we get greedy, we could have an interface to store different "brushes" like in illustrator :P ).

And also i'd like the ability to control the underlying calligraphic tool settings (width, angle, etc... ) a good simplification to avoid having 2 very similar tools is to allow the eraser tool to use the calligraphic tool profiles ( inkscape's defaults and user created too).

Even though i think it would be a bit odd to have to create a profile in the calligraphic tool just to use it in the eraser, (that's why i think that eraser should be a "mode" for the calligraphic tool, but i think this discussion was already closed... :( )

[MickM (mick-mueck)]

I'm new to Inkscape and am using the latest development version 0.48 r9716. I was frustrated to see that using the eraser to slice a calligraphy shape in two does not automatically break apart the shapes. I second the motion to implement that. Indeed, all of the original poster's requests are fine by me! My prioritized preference order would be 1, 2, 4, 3 - but 1 & 2 are definitely the big ones.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Break apart feature (1) available as of trunk rev. 14681.