When I move objects in my drawing, the gradient stays behind. I don't think it used to do this. Is there a way to make the gradeint move with the rest of the drawing?
It's a toggle button in the Selector controls. You have probably unpressed it accidentally.
My 2 year old nephew did get at the keyboard when I wasn't looking. :-) I kind of figured that there was a setting somewhere, I just can't find it. Do you mean in Inkscape Preferences-->Tools-->Selector? I tried toggeling the "Enable gradient editing" option, but that seems to just mean that the gradient adjuster tool shows up when the object is selected. The situation persists either way.
I'm wondering whether we have a usability problem here, since I have been asked this very same question by a number of other people (though, sometimes it's stroke scaling or pattern transformation rather than gradients).
I've always found Inkscape to be very usable. Any settings I've changed have made sense to me both in location, icon, and description. For this one, I wasn't the one who changed it initially, so I had to just treat the symptoms. The symptom in my view was "gradient doesn't move with drawing", so I figgured it was a gradient issue or a selection issue. I'm probably just not understanding why the gradient isn't comming with.
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