Those of you who are also on the OpenClipart.org mailing list may have noticed that the Gimp now allows the use of SVG Gradients. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148127
The support is in CVS and there has not yet been a release that has included but there should be another 2.1.x release soon.
Sven Neuman added the feature, and I'm well pleased. Now I'll be able to use the same files for both Inkscape and Gimp and use a standardised file format. The gradient file can contain a single gradient or multiple gradients. The parser has some flexibility with regards to the formatting used by the gradients. The gradients are read only for now.
Another recently added feature that I requested was support for using standard file formats for Patterns. As GDKPixbuf was used and because there is an option to use librsvg to add SVG support to GDKpixbuf it should be possible to use SVG patterns directly in the Gimp too. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140443
Futher testing of and feedback on the SVG Gradient support would be very much appreciated.
DND support could be added in time but it will require work from Inkscape. Sven would like to do this if Inkscape developers will do the necessary work on their side, and he asked me to pass on that request.
I'm in a bit of a hurry otherwise i would have phrased this better and more clearly. There is also the distinct possibility that this account will be temporarily unavailable due to maintainance for the next few days so I may have to catch up on Monday or sign up with a different account.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/