two pencils

[pencil5]

I have been using GIMP for so many years I don't remember anymore.  It used to be easier to use, but now I spend most of my time changing the pencil settings back and forth.
I finally found the preferences tab where all the brushes share settings.  That is a bit better, now I have 4 brushes that do not interfere with each other.

What I want is a pencil that stays set at its pencil settings.  This pencil must always be there and no have its settings changed by anything else I might need a tool to do.

I want a second pencil for using with all the weird options.
Preferably a coarse brush and a fine brush, that stay set at those settings.

The airbrush I can afford to setup each time I need to use it.

I would prefer that these be separate icons in the tools.  I do not expect to get a keyboard shortcut for each.

GIMP seems to have everything configurable, but so complex that nothing can actually be found.

Do I have to edit the source code to get this ?

[Ofnuts]

You can't have several copies of the tool, but for a tool you can save a bunch of settings together, give that a name and reload these later. This is done via the 4 icons at the bottom of the Tool options and is described in the doc.