2010/7/27 Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...123...>:
Hi!
Please have a look at 2 mockups about tightening up the Fill and Stroke Panel: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/inkscape-fill-and-stroke-panel/
You essentially want to incorporate the gradient editor into the fill and stroke dialog. As far as I know, the plan was to remove the gradient editor entirely, and instead use on-canvas editing, once we come up with a way of specifying a numeric offset for a gradient stop on the canvas.
My thought was that right click could bring up a small floating toolbar with a spinbox and an "apply" button that could be used to set this. It would disappear when the user presses Enter, when it loses focus or when the user presses the "apply" button. Tab would move to the next gradient stop, rather than moving focus to the apply button. The same principle (toolbar with spinbox appears when right-clicking) could be used for other control points (nodes, handles, rectangle corners...) as well.
The vertical combo box in your proposal is not supported by GTK.
Regards, Krzysztof