Comment 6 for bug 1032880

@John - something in the recent commits (11583-11589) partially broke the gradient tool once the fill & stroke dialog has been opened in the current session (unfortunately I don't have separate builds at hand which would allow me to narrow down whether it's due to changes for this report, or maybe for bug #1030239):

Steps to reproduce:
1) mv ~/.config/inkscape{,-bkp}
2) launch Inkscape
3) draw a rectangle
4) open Fill & Stroke
5) switch to the gradient tool and double-click the rectangle to add a gradient
6) switch back to the select tool to grab the rectangle and move it

-> the rectangle cannot be grabbed with the mouse anymore. It can be e.g. selected with <TAB> and moved with the arrow keys, which seems to trigger some internal updates, and makes the object selectable by mouse pointer again. There also seems to be an increased delay when dragging a gradient stop while still in the gradient tool context.

Behavior is not triggered as long as Fill&Stroke hasn't been opened in the current session. It is also not triggered when assigning a gradient via Fill&Stroke, though subsequent changes with the gradient tool (e.g. applying a radial instead of linear gradient) cause the same problem (object insensitive to mouse pointer).