I think you have taken this request seriously!
thinking of which, how about a brush management panel as well?
by this I mean a panel that resembles the paper panel, and that allows:
- browsing through all of the user brushes
- change brushes names
- preview the brushes, including animated brushes, in a decent preview size
- sort brushes in custom categories (i.e. ink, pencil, cut-outs etc.)
- export + import
of course you can some of these function via custom panels, but I feel that there's too much weight on the functionality of the panels, and that the sorting of brushes should be given more dedicated importance. currently If I want to export a handful of brushes, I need to select and copy the ones I want into a new toolbar, and then export that toolbar. But it would be nice to just ctrl+select (or any other function) and export all the selected brushes into a newly created folder or .bin file.
As for previewing brushes at decent size, on a background color of your choice - that would surely be an advantage. Currently, if I want to find a brush that I lost from my custom panels, I need to go into the brushes folder, and go through indecipherable long file names, being ablr to see only the first frame of animated brushes, so the guessing might take a while if you have hundreds of brushes.
I hope I didn't explain too terribly...
cheers for taking so many suggestions into account.