Comment 6 for bug 165936

I think we have a good balance of sharing/forking gradients.
There're really no reason to fork it when all you do is
duplicate an object. However it's automatically forked when
you do anything to it that would affect gradient. The ONLY
way to change one gradient and to have more than one object
display that is by editing it in the gradient editor; this
is why the Edit... button has a Duplicate button right
beside it. Perhaps after I implement HSL controls on
multiple objects we can get rid of this sharing too (so a
gradient would fork everytime you open Gradient Editor with
it) but for now it should stay, because changing the
gradient on many objects at once is a useful feature.