How to create beautiful button using Inkscape

For the un-initiated, Inkscape is a very powerful, free, open source and friendly SVG graphic editor. When I was browsing around Apple's web store, I saw a beautiful "select" button. That is a typical apple-ish button with gradient and rounded edges. I did some research to find how to create such a nice button in Inkscape. I could create a nice professional looking button in a few minutes (not as good as Apple though). Here it is:


Watch for a step by step tutorial on how to create this - over the weekend.