Axiom X11 wrote:
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I was very confused by buliabyak's comment that the "'gradient dialog box' is no longer needed," since we would now be able to "edit [it] all on [the] canvas".
In Inkscape 0.45.1 I can edit the end points of a gradient on the canvas, which is a neat trick, but I don't see how you would edit any of the stops in between those without the dialog. If this kind of functionality is in the roadmap, I will humbly step back, for I am no coder (in C#/GTK anyway) just a lowly web designer.
In the current SVN copy (which will eventually be 0.46), we have editing of the gradient mid-stops on canvas in addition to the end stops which 0.45 has. It's much more intuitive than Photoshop's implementation since you are doing it all right there directly on the object.
The gradient edition dialog is literally no longer needed (well, 95% not needed at this point, but by the time 0.46 hits it will be completely obsolete).
If you don't mind potential bugginess, grab a nightly build from: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?C=M;O=D
You will want the topmost file, which will require 7-zip to decompress it. Also, you need to NOT overwrite your stable copy.
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
-Josh