See http://bugs.freestandards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77 for further discussion.

--- README
+++ README
@@ -23,9 +23,10 @@
 under color management. Grey scale icc profiles in images are not supported in this release.
 
 Scribus 1.2.3 also supports the proposed OpenIcc standard icc profile 
-locations: $home/.color/icc and /usr/share/color/icc/ under linux. Scribus
-will automatically detect them in these locations. Some distro neutral rpms
-for installing profiles are available on www.scribus.net.
+locations: $home/.color/icc, /usr/local/share/color/icc/ and
+/usr/share/color/icc/ under linux. Scribus will automatically detect
+them in these locations. Some distro neutral rpms for installing
+profiles are available on www.scribus.net.
 
 When you now open old documents Scribus will convert all Font Names
 automatically.
--- scribus/util.cpp
+++ scribus/util.cpp
@@ -2387,6 +2387,7 @@
 #elif defined(Q_WS_X11)
 	iccProfDirs.append(QDir::homeDirPath()+"/color/icc/");
 	iccProfDirs.append(QDir::homeDirPath()+"/.color/icc/");
+	iccProfDirs.append("/usr/local/share/color/icc/");
 	iccProfDirs.append("/usr/share/color/icc/");
 #elif defined(_WIN32)
 	// On Windows it's more complicated, profiles location depends on OS version
