Re: [Inkscape-devel] Opacity Bug?

On 10/21/07, microUgly <drworm@...1743...> wrote:

If stops don't need an Alpha color preview, why do flats (solid fill) need an Alpha preview? Why wouldn't flats abondon Alpha for Opacity also? Or is this the intention?

Ideally, yes. This would simplify things. But we can't really do this because SVG has fill-opacity and stroke-opacity properties and we must support them both in rendering and in the UI. However, they are sort of deprecated, simply because in many cases they are redundant and therefore confusing.