Gradients on buttons?

[Richard Gaskin]

Keith Clarke wrote:

 > Is there any particular reason why buttons don't support gradients
 > - at least for those styles of button that are not attempting to
 > be (desktop) OS-compliant, such as rounded rectangles?

Looks like a design decision, but given how well the other graphic 
effects have been applied to all controls I've submitted this request 
for gradients to be available for all controls as well:

<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9114>

In the meantime, rolling your own with behaviors or images as the others 
have suggested is probably your best bet for now.

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