Why no line tool?

[General Disarray]

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but why do none of Affinity's apps have a line tool like most design apps in both vector and bitmap formats? I know I can use the rectangle tool, but it seems a bit odd to create just a simple line.

Unless I missed it somehow, but searching for line in the menus and then the shapes tool, usually where that sits at, there's no line. Sure, a line is not a shape, but it's normal convention to put it there.

[v_kyr]

See for ADe:

• Pencil Tool
• Pen Tool

for APh:

• Pixel Tool
• Pen Tool (Vector line tools)

...etc.

[Catshill]

I use the pen tool to draw lines.

[General Disarray]

Fair enough. Thanks, fellas, and a happy new year!

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, General Disarray said:

... why do none of Affinity's apps have a line tool like most design apps in both vector and bitmap formats?

Short answer: because all the Affinity apps have a Pen Tool & the Pen Tool has four modes, among them Line & Polygon. Also, the Pen mode includes a 'hot key' method to constrain the next node to a straight line extending from the last drawn node.

The only downside I can think of for this is there is no keyboard shortcut to select any particular mode for the Pen Tool to use like there might be if there was a separate line tool.

[loukash]

Even shorter answer:
Pen tool > click > click = line
Voilà.