Allow operations (deleting objects, layers or booleans) outside of the move tool

[Intuos5]

I often want to do object or layer deletion when I have other tools active than the move tool. For example, I draw a stroke with the brush tool and want to delete it (I could ctrl+Z, but that's not the point). Similarly, if I have objects already selected in the layers panel and I have a brush tool active, I can't do boolean operations. Since I always use hotkeys, this gets annoying, because I also have to check which tool I have active if the software doesn't what I expect it to do (perform the operation I pressed the hotkey for).

So please look into adding operations outside of the move tool. This mostly applies to Affinity Publisher and Designer (basically the vector based tools).

[fde101]

Assuming it is the vector brush tool, you can delete the stroke by right-clicking on it in the Layers panel and choosing Delete, regardless of the selected tool.

The delete key should also work, but agree that in the vector brush tool it does not.

I could understand it not working in the *raster* brush tool because a raster brush does not create a layer but draws on an existing pixel layer that can have other unrelated content making that operation questionable when that tool is in use, but the truly strange thing is that it actually *does* work in the raster brush tool and not in the vector one!

I suspect it is probably a bug that the delete key does not work with the vector brush tool as the key definitely works in other vector-oriented tools such as the shape tools and the pen tool, and even in places (such as with the raster brush tool) where I am not sure that it should?