[Feature request]: Only allow strokes to be deleted with path eraser about butterfly HOT 12 CLOSED

selecting and deleting them

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I think a toolbar is better. If you want to delete multiple things it's easier to use the eraser

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This is intentional. Should we disable this? Only the normal eraser ignores other elements that are not paths

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I think so, it's confusing, when I want to delete a pdf page or an image or whatever, I just select it and delete it

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I'm currently thinking:

• The normal eraser only erases a part of the path
• The path eraser erases everything it can see

We could make an option to path eraser to only erase path elements and add it to the property view.
The name is also a bit confusing

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I think both should only erase strokes of the pen. anything else labels, PDFs, images can be selected and deleted, it's a common use in apps like this

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Hmm okay and how should the other elements be removed?

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I would combine it with #683 and put it in the 2.2 release.
It's a bigger feature and I just want to go forward with it.
Maybe we add an optional feature to include all elements

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What do you think about a similar approach where the user selects what to delete

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Looks good. Maybe we add this as a toolbar in the path eraser and eraser

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it could be a solution. in my opinion you should either let the user decide what to delete, adding the icons in the tools, or have the eraser delete only pen strokes (drawings etc.) and let it delete everything else (images, pdfs etc.) using the selection. you choose which approach is best.

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Added in 2.2.0-beta.0

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