bulia byak wrote:
By the way, this "feature" made more sense when we had a separate Gradient Editor dialog. But that dialog is also going to be removed. And when you edit a gradient on canvas, having other objects change is even less intuitive.
And if you need to replace one color by another in the entire drawing, just use the Replace color extension - much easier, no need for unnatural tricks :)
Hello,
I would like to express my opposition to the idea of removing the gradient editor completely. In my opinion, it should be kept and enhanced to allow the easier editing and previewing of complex gradients with emphasis on transparency. This is particularly important when working with multiple overlaid gradients which are useful for photorealism. The on-canvas gradient editing is great, but I think as a GUI it fails to address complex situations and it lacks transparency-related functionality. A while ago, I proposed a design for the gradient dialog, hoping that someone would like it enough to implement it (see attachments for a reminder of my proposed design).
If you agree to keep the dialog, I'm volunteering to implement my proposed enhancements. I am going to need some help before I can start doing this though, I'm completely unfamiliar with the inkscape codebase, so I will probably need some hand-holding initially. The benefit is that hopefully the community will have gained another contributor :-)
What do people think?
Stathis
