Yes, to see the brush names permanently would be very helpful. I think the brush stroke previews must not be so big, so there would be place enough for the names - if they are not too long. For this case they could be cutted and faded with "..." at the end (like in the Layers Panel).
GIMP has a nice solution for this. You can choose between only the brushes preview or a list with the previews and the names of the brushes behind it. And you can choose between 8 sizes for the previews/list. That's nice e.g. if you have a small monitor.
Permanent highlighting of selected brushes would be very helpful too. I often miss that.
I'm really loving the Affinity Suite, they are fantastic products. But it's become frustrating that my biggest pain point with the desktop software is seemingly something so easy to fix. I'm talking about how you can only see the brush names in the brush panel by hovering your cursor over the brush. For someone who has bought a lot of brushes for the software this is really painful. This has really hampered my ability to find a brush, or even remember what brush I had used previously. It seems like a small thing, but it really isn't. Seeing the names in the panel helps greatly with memory retention and creates a much stronger user experience. Right now I either have to hover over the brush, taking an extra second to let the name pop up (getting me out of my artistic flow and annoying me, and that annoyance meaning I'm unlikely to bother), or I have to not register the name in my consciousness at all, leaving me to hopefully remember later which in a long line of squiggly shapes is the brush I used.
While I realize this isn't the most important feature in the world, it's also really low hanging fruit. And doesn't the ipad versions of the suite already have this (I don't have the ipad versions but I'd swear I saw in a video that they do)?
Is this a result of someone in UI wanting to make the panel look prettier and more streamlined and thinking it doesn't hamper our workflows? Because if so please, please put that strange notion aside. You are most definitely hampering my workflow.
Please don't tell me we have to wait for 1.9 for this. It's such a small thing but so important.
