Comment 12 for bug 722017

@Sean, very nice proposal, i've tried to implement some of the ideas here.

There are essentially 2 components to working with Gradients
1. A list/menu/swatch of gradients - that shows all the gradients. How about we call this the "Gradient Manager"
2. A "Gradient editor" to modify a single gradient - currently there are 2 (the Gradient tool and the Gradient Editor dialog)

Attached is a screenshot of an implementation of 1. "Gradient Manager" only, including some other requested features around "managing" gradients
* Merging of gradients (bug #170214)
* Re-map and delete a gradient (bug #516108)

Features include :
* Sort by color, name or usage
* Inline renaming of gradients
* Merge gradients - The idea here is you can selects multiple gradients, then click the merge button to change all references to those gradients to a single (most used?) gradient and deletes the other gradients. This would work well when combined with the sort by color.
* Delete gradients

Any thoughts or ideas to improve on this ?