I really don't see how a small program like Inkscape, by not supporting Gimp gradients, can coerce the much larger program into doing things our way. At least, not for the forseeable future. We are but a tiny blip on their radar. It would be like going on a hunger strike. This little plugin helps our users right now.
I think a better tactic would be to donate code to Gimp to use SVG for gradients. Then a .ggr would just naturally be SVG. Also, this nifty tool can in the meantime convert their gradients to SVG.
Positive karma all around.
Bob
Alan Horkan wrote:
I look forward to testing the brilliant work Ted has done and using the other plug-ins but what I'm specifically asking for is that Inkscape does not support GGR on principle as it will hurt efforts to get the gimp to abandon the non-standard format. (By not support I mean disable it by default, or if it is seperate then not ship it in the default packages.) It is in Inkscapes best interest in the long run to encourage the use of the SVG Gradient format and any short term benifits of using GGR seem very small. (Similar sentiment also applies to gimp pattern files (.pat) as the gimp can now use any format supported by gdkpixbuf as a pattern).