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0017776ScribusGeneralpublic2026-03-05 10:32
Reporterale Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityN/A
Status newResolutionopen 
Product Version1.7.3.svn 
Summary0017776: User Color Sets do not seem to be working
DescriptionWith a document open, In the "Colors and Fills" dialog I have removed the unused colors and imported some colors from a different document.

I then have saved the colors with the name "test" with the "Save Color Set" button.

- I could not find a reference to "test" in ~/.config/scribus : where are the colors stored?
- Applying the "test" swatch adds completely different colors than what I had in my set (the two custom colors are not there and there a few more colors being added).
- I have no way to remove my test set (not from the UI, nor from the file system, since I can't find where the swatches are stored)
- I have no way to rename the set.

Also, the drop down "Merge Color Set" is not a choice of the current set but merges the activated set: the widget should not show the selected set, but revert to a "Apply set" entry (or a different type of widget should be used: a popup showing letting the user pick a set and showing the colors in there might be a better choice...).
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cbradney

2026-03-05 10:07

administrator   ~0053564

It uses QStandardPaths::AppDataLocation which is:
AppDataLocation "~/.local/share/<APPNAME>", "/usr/local/share/<APPNAME>", "/usr/share/<APPNAME>"

Works for me. I think we should close this as I would not call the rest a bug, it has not changed probably in more than a decade at a guess. A new design would be a better feature request.

ale

2026-03-05 10:24

manager   ~0053565

Last edited: 2026-03-05 10:32

Thanks for the path!
That's correct

Still, the bug is that applying the set does not work for me.
I attach the file (created by Scribus) that I can't merge in.

P.S: In the forums, Portreve seems to have the same issue I have: https://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,6828.msg27953.html

P.P.S.: Ok, the issue mentioned in the forum, might simply be related of the better case of the items and attributes in the newer Scribus versions...
test.xml (424 bytes)   
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ScribusColors>
    <Color Name="Base Color" Space="RGB" R="0" G="106" B="255"/>
    <Color Name="Black" Space="CMYK" C="0" M="0" Y="0" K="100"/>
    <Color Name="Complementary" Space="RGB" R="255" G="149" B="0"/>
    <Color Name="Registration" Space="CMYK" C="100" M="100" Y="100" K="100" Register="1"/>
    <Color Name="White" Space="CMYK" C="0" M="0" Y="0" K="0"/>
</ScribusColors>
test.xml (424 bytes)   

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2026-03-05 07:59 ale New Issue
2026-03-05 10:07 cbradney Note Added: 0053564
2026-03-05 10:24 ale Note Added: 0053565
2026-03-05 10:24 ale File Added: test.xml
2026-03-05 10:25 ale Note Edited: 0053565
2026-03-05 10:32 ale Note Edited: 0053565