Comment 3 for bug 180693

Hey guys, I can't help but think this is an _extremely_ important bug, and as such, I'll ask if there has been any progress made on this?

I would hope that we can somehow get to a point that we can have seamless blurs in Inkscape. It has been neglected since it's inception with regards to the rather terrible banding. It is extremely noticeable when we get into the lower value numbers for tones -- such as any colour where there are very few RGB values.

I don't know what the answer is, but it should definitely be a rendering option to provide the smoothest gradients possible for printable materials.

I realize that this probably flies in the face with the manifesto to keep Inkscape WYSIWYG. I'd suggest that perhaps that cornerstone might need to be re-evaluated in this matter for the following reasons:
 1) A full pixel perfect blur will consume vast quantities of CPU resources and Inkscape suffers from cripplingly poor performance already.
 2) Pixel perfect blurs are mandatory for print, larger works, photo realistic work, and a vast number of other critical areas. WYSIWYG demands extremely rapid response times, and as such, the two cannot coexist happily.

I beg you my dearest developers, please zoom in on this issue and get the overall performance and performance with blurring onto the table as a critical area that needs attention desperately.

Thanks for all of your hard work.