Thanks the tries to reproduce the case, sorry maybe I should had start at the beginning that this Star is in Xara Designs gallery / Web templates / Graphics.

And yes exactly there is start and end color in Colour editor, finally found the tricky is that the handles are quite far away from the object itself, and that confused me. So the conclusion is that if in the Fill menus can be seen that Linear-Simple-Fade for the object, somewhere it is sure there just maybe beside the object.

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