Move Along People

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Currently a lot of the tools have multiple modifier keys which can be used in unison, and that’s great if you have good hand coordination but some can be difficult to use, e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Right-Mouse+Drag with the Node Tool.
It might be nice if we could have a little panel – maybe at the bottom of the Toolbar, or at the left/right of the Status bar, or wherever – which allows us to select which modifiers we want to use by activating an icon instead of having to use the keyboard. (Keyboard modifiers would still work, this would just be an on-screen alternative/complement.)
By having these modifiers available on-screen we could use them without having to keep applying them with each use – they would be in effect until we switched them off.
This might also make things easier for people with limited mobility as they could use the software more with only the mouse. In particular, for example, one-armed users would probably find it very useful.
In my quick and crude mock-up you can see that the Shift and Alt modifiers are in effect, see red arrow (better icons would obviously be needed, and more modifier icons than I have given).
I haven’t thought this through fully but I thought it might be a nice idea to play around with to see if it might actually be useful (which is why I’ve posted this in the Questions section rather than the Feature Requests section).
Edit: I only expect this proposed ‘Modifier Panel’ to affect anything when the user is doing something on the canvas, not while they are using the rest of the UI (otherwise it would cause all sorts of problems).
Can anyone see any good or bad in this idea? (If someone can prove that it’s a terrible idea then I’d be fine with that.)

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If you going to print to coloured paper background colour setting would be a useful simulation. If you going to PRINT the background colour then rectangle method is sensible, reminding that bg colour is an added element. IMHO.

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It does..so long as it is not my window!

Dinosaur Assets
A set of multi-layer vector symbols and textures based on dinosaur skin

Cover Image
290 x175mm 300dpi all vector

Built from 15 multi-layer symbols all vector based to be used for brush base textures | assets | styles | scalable grunge tiled patterns 
 

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Me too.
 

Thanks @kaffeeundsalz & @haakoo - I searched for this but the icon and tooltip didn't jump out as what I was looking for. This is perfect, problem solved. Thanks again.
As a suggestion to the devs - shouldn't this be in (or duplicated in) the Transform panel?

Could you explain a bit more, for those who haven't used Illustrator? On the face of it a cookie cutter would behave how the Affinity "subtract" operation does, i.e. "cut one object out of another". And you can also do that non destructively using Layer -> Create Compound, then selecting subtract on the first object, in the layer panel.

The bowl was difficult ... not sure if a strictly pixel drawing would have been more successful. The photo version was the reference but lack of detail was problematic. The perspective on the “leaves” is not quite right. Any and all criticism or suggestions are welcome...

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