bulia byak wrote:
Now, gradients are automatically forked if necessary upon any change, so if you change gradient on one object this never affects any other objects.
Oh, no! I can't express how disappointed I am by this decision. I always felt that being able to easily reuse gradients was one of Inkscapes best features.
It was just revealed to me a method of creating a gradient with one stop for the purpose of being able to change flat colour of multiple objects easily (http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=248#p1362), and now that trick is void.
I'm really sorry I missed the discussion of this decision. I would have been quite vocal :) I'm constantly tweaking colours in my drawing and I relied on the ability to be able to update them all very easily. Colouring in Inkscape will be very clumsy and tedious now.
I won't argue that people new to Inkscape didn't become confused by the system. I will argue that perhaps not enough thought was put into the solution. Inkscape has lost a feature, not gained one.