Comment 2 for bug 169019

I recreated it on WinXP, dev build 16th Dec

If you reduce alpha on flat colour of a stroke, then choose a gradient (linear or radial), the gradient will set the current alpha of the flat color as the highest value for the gradient alpha, so even if you go edit the gradient, and it shows bright red on one stop (255 alpha for example) in the gradient editor, still on drawing it looks very faint (exactly how faint depends on the alpha of the flat color from the beginning).

I checked it on square, elipse and caligraphy stroke.

The same procedure on a fill works ok, only the stroke is affected.