Usability issue

[LukasT.dev@gmail.com]

On Sunday 12 July 2009 15:36:39 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Sunday 12 July 2009, LukasT.dev at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when you work in Gimp and you want to clear the actual layer, you do a
> > selection (Ctrl+A) and then Clear ( Del ).
>
> Yes, that should work in Krita.
>
> > In Krita you have to go to menu Edit -> Clear
> >
> > Now we have also Delete entry in that menu.
>
> I think that comes from the text shape -- this is one place where the flake
> system presents us with problems.
>
> > What about to join this into
> > one with Clear and follow the same work steps as in Gimp? So basicly
> > Delete could be renamed to Clear and it would also work on selections?
> >
> > Or if you disagree, could we add some keyboard shortcut for Clear?
>
> Doesnt ctrl-x for cut work?

It works. But this seems to be like a workaround. 
If you have content in clipboard you want to paste and you need to delete some 
selection before, you can't use this. You would delete your data.