No easy way to use palettes in gradient dialog

[Roanoke]

So when using the gradient dialog, it is common to use the currently selected palette with it. However, there is no easy way to do this (sorry if I'm wrong). I suggest one of the following:
1. When clicking on a color in the palette with the gradient editor open, make that current stop's color that of the selected color.
2. When dragging a color in the palette into the gradient editor RGBa box, replace the value with the dragged color. Currently, selecting the box and dragging the color results in something like this: #ffffff while RGBa expects something like this: ffffffff.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Why not using the gradient tool and edit it the gradient directly on the canvas?
Thus you can select a stop node and change it's color by clicking on or dragging from the palette.

The gradient dialog (lack of?) usefulness has already been debated in the past, and some suggested that it could be removed. It's still here today, but I really don't know why.

[ScislaC (scislac)]

We need a couple more controls from the Gradient Editor moved to the Gradient Tool Controls bar before it's fully deprecated.

[Jon A. Cruz (jon-joncruz)]

For several workflows a good gradient dialog is much better than on-canvas editing. I frequently encounter this when working with complex gradients with more than a few stops.

However, I am not stating that the current dialog is a good one. It does need replacement.

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

The old gradient tool has been replaced a long time ago. When selecting a gradient stop, clicking a palette color now assigns the color to the stop. You can also drag a palette color to a (selected or unselected) gradient stop, dropping it assigns the color.

Closing as Fix relased.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at http://inkscape.org/report.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger