ryan lerch wrote:
After a discussion in the IRC channel about gradients and patterns, i have a few queries about them:
Do you remember we have a number of gradients and patterns submitted a long time ago to OCAL by Alan Horkan? A very brute way to use the existing those would be to generate a kind of preview (the files are empty, without any path [1], so Nautilus or any other file manager can't automatically create an useful thumbnail), drag and drop them into your document and use the gradient/pattern.
- Do the inkscape/share/patterns and inkscape/share/gradients
actually do anything in Inkscape yet?
- Is there anyone planning to create code for a gradients or pattern
library in inkscape, so they can be browsed and imported into the current document.
[1] - IIRC, at the time we discussed having a simple rectangle into the gradient SVG for thumbnails but the author did not want this for compatibility reasons with another graphic application.