On 1/23/07, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote:
You might find some drawbacks with them. I have odd situation sometimes with fills and whatnot. If I move a clone around, sometimes the gradient fills sort-of "lag" behind. When it happens, it's obvious.
A simple rule is, do not use clones-of-clones. Use multiple clones of a single object. This fixes most if not all of such problems.
Also, you should do some experiments with cloning a grouped object and whether you can edit the original group -- I have had some trouble in the past. I am not in Inkscape right now, so can't test as I type.
Yes you can edit inside a group and all clones of that group are updated automatically. If you encounter any reproducible problem with this, please file a bug with full details.