Comment 6 for bug 321840

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> i guess a further solution would be [B] to make all gradients immediately a swatch,

Swatches serve a different purpose (spot colors, swatch books [1]) and are different from regular gradients. Swatches ideally can hold flat colors, gradients, patterns etc as custom paint servers, and don't get auto-cleaned when unreferenced. I don't see how eliminating the regular gradient type(s) and treating them as swatches would solve any issues with the perceived UI inconsistencies to edit the colors of selected gradient stops.

[1] <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Swatch_Book>
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