Comment 5 for bug 165936

Not having right to boost a priority of this bug, let me
just whine here that this is quite a showstopper for me.
Many times I need to assemble an image consisting of various
artwork that shares elements and thus has gradients with
same ids.

I can't just take an image, copy and paste into this collage
image without gradients going all screwy.

Reusing the same gradient on multiple objects is a good
functionality, mostly comming from the SVG spec side of
things though. As an artist, if I consider filesize an issue
or want to have gradient changes apply to everything, I can
go an manually pick the same gradients to be used by
multiple objects. I consider this a very special case.

By default Inkscape should just create a new gradient every
time a new object gets created. Copying objects should not
point to the same gradient defs.