paste style gradient broken

[Wahooney]

I discovered this bugs a couple of nightlies ago and it still seems to be present in r21167 (official nightlies / Windows build).

When copying and pasting an object style with a gradient, the receiving object's fill goes transparent and the fill preview is just random noise (see attachment)

[Kattekrab (donna)]

Hrm - I need more information to try to replicate this bug.
Can you try to describe the precise steps you take to get this behvaiour?

[Wahooney (wahooney-wahooney)]

I just created a shape
* Added a gradient
* Copy the object (Ctrl-C)
* Create a new object
* Paste Style (Ctrl-Shift-V)

And that's that

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu 9.04, build 21237.
Actually, the gradient is pasted, but it stays at its original position.
In the following screenshot, I've copied the rectangle's gradient and pasted it to the ellipse. But the ellipse's gradient is above the rectangle.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> the fill preview is just random noise
not reproduced with Inkscape 0.47 and 0.47+devel r9402 on OS X 10.5.8

> the gradient is pasted, but it stays at its original position
The 'paste style bug' described in comment #4 is the same as bug #166715 “paste style doesn't keep relative gradiant position” (marked 'Won't fix').

Can we close this report as 'Fix released' (0.47) or link as duplicate to #166715?

[Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail)]

Looks like a duplicate, yes. But I'd push to re-open it.
A duplicate of something that "is not a bug, it's a feature" is a hint that users aren't seing it that way.

In my oppinion, it's a usability bug, a design choice that commonly looks like an error to the eyes of the users.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

linking as duplicate to (reopened) bug #166715.

Please add a comment and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think this was done in error.