Bug 400256

Meant to say either way gives a hand cursor that closes.

have you just tried to drag it all the way to the left or right? I am not sure exactly all the shortcuts that should remove stop gradients, but dragging it all the way to the sides seem to remove it for me.

I can't remove the stops as per the manual either, but you can drag the stop you want to delete all the way to the right or left (off the gradient). The stop will be removed, and the initial color of the starting and ending stops is not altered.

As stated, I tried that.  They just piled up at the end.  In some cases it looked like they were gone, but they were just on top of each other.  I spent a fair amount of time trying, including several restarts.  If there is a trick to it, I didn't find it.

Note that we have two gradient editors, that work in differently. The Stop Gradient Editor and the Segment Gradient Editor. The Segment Gradient Editor allows you to remove stops with right-click and remove segment, the Stop Gradient Editor by dragging the stops out of the gradient.

The Stop Gradient Editor should be fixed to implement right-click delete.

I just tried using the segmented gradient editor.  It did not seem to work well at all.  On clicking a stop, it usually did not change the colors to be edited.  I was trying to create a grayscale gradient with five values, and it was very frustrating.  I would make a change and something weird would happen, apparently because I was not editing the stop I had clicked.  The stop doesn't seem to get highlighted either.  I could move the stops, but not make the colors change reliably, and often not at all.  I ended up figuring out the file format and created the gradient in a text editor.  (I wanted 5 bars of increasing gray values to get values from an image using a Gradient Map.)

That worked, to some extent at least.  The Gradient icon in the tool bar showed my gradient correctly (5 bars of increasing gray values).  However, the gradient editor itself showed a continuous grayscale, not blocks, and attempting to use it as a Filter Mask with Gradient Map also had a continuous grayscale.

BTW the document ion does not say to right click the bar to split the gradient.  Took a while to figure that out.

[After spending all that time, I WAS able to get what I wanted with a Stop (SVG) gradient without having to do it in an editor.]

I'm not doing well with gradients. ;-)

More problems.  I edit a stop gradient.  It changes in the Gradients panel, but it isn't saved.

I even tried renaming it, and it didn't save it (nor modify ko_gradients.blacklist).

I looked at this again this morning.  I am still confused as to what is happening.  Perhaps there is no way to save your edits.  In the best of all possible worlds the edit dialog would have Save and Cancel.

It would be nice to be able to see the XML, too.

The documentation is not helpful as to what this dialog does.

The only thing that is working for me is to edit the gradients elsewhere and manually put them in the gradients directory in the settings -- not what you call user friendly ;-)

This sounds like a wish, not a bug, and a wish that requires some design work first.
Even that "just implement delete on right click in one of the editor" doesn't seem suitable anymore because both editors now have context menus for right-click.
For any progress in this wish, it should follow this instruction: https://docs.krita.org/en/untranslatable_pages/new_features.html and preferably has some suggestions for design.

resolved in 5.0