Comment 2 for bug 276956

i'd like these too!!

About the second point:

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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).
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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... :( )