When Are We Getting A Mesh Paint Tool?

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And was it as intuitive as AI? How much more intuitive could it be other than literally dropping the colours where you want them? Something I'm sure would apply to a mesh fill done in Xara.

1. Illustrator has a thick gradient bar, whereas that line you're supposed to aim for in Xara is very thin, hard to miss, and therefor I didn't think you were supposed to aim and drop anything on it either.

2. Illustrator has small triangles (arrows) for every color attached to the gradient, aiming towards the bar. The color is also slightly beveled, indicating a button you can press. I bet one of the first things every Illustrator user does it accidently drag a color off the bar, which actually then immediately plants the idea in their heads that they can drag colors onto the bar as well.

3. You almost never do drag and drop actions in Xara, whereas you do it quite often in Illustrator, since the layers/objects/compositions tree is so central to keeping an eye on everything you do (moving objects between layers in Xara, for example, is a button).

Also, not having tested dropping colors on the gradient control line in Xara yet, does this mean that they move and stretch as you edit the line? Can this be toggled?

Imo, Xara is very intuitive at the very basic level, and usability stone age at anything more complex (especially visible in the layers dialog and clip view feature).

Not that Illustrator is perfect either (6 bloody tools just to edit the same point is ridiculus).