drawing lines of varying width

two related suggestions for freehand drawing:

a] - dragging the mouse, [with a keystroke pressed?], increases/decreases the width of the line at the selected nodes

b) - when drawing with the 'constant' line, using the mouse, be able to simulate touch sensitivity by keystroke - eg holding down left arrow reduces width, right arrow increases it, as you drag

these features exist elsewhere and I think xtreme should have them please :)

Good idea although +key to increase line width and -key to decrease line width would make more sense?

yes, great idea,
I think that +- key would be very useful.

I would second the idea of having the attribute control at node level, this would be very useful - especially if Feathering, colour and transparency could be set at this level too.