User palettes not available if all shared system palettes are deleted from installation

[Paulo Silva]

i did a dist-upgrade to Ubuntu yesterday (14.10 to 15.04), and Inkscape got upgraded to version 0.91 - the situation is that it isn't reading palettes from ~/.config/inkscape/palettes anymore, only from /usr/share/inkscape - and i only want to have my own custom palettes (and i have a "cleaning" script with "sudo rm /usr/share/inkscape/palettes/*" for assuring i haven't available the original palettes ) - how can i get this situation fixed? i guess it's a bug blocking the palettes from ~/.config/inkscape/palettes , or some default misconfiguration ocurred after the upgrade? thanks!

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Not reproduced with Inkscape 0.91 r13725 and 0.91+devel r14059 on OS X (regular, linux-style local build and installation).

The palettes are loaded as expected from the default location "$HOME/.config/inkscape/palettes", or - if the environment of the launching shell sets up different paths for (some of the) XDG Base Directories - from "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/inkscape/palettes".

Could you please:
- provide the system information (paths) as displayed in Inkscape's preferences (menu 'Edit > Preferences > System')
- attach the current content of your current user's ~/.config/inkscape/palettes/ directory (zipped or tar'd), to allow testing the palettes on other systems
- ideally, maybe also attach the user's current Inkscape preferences file (~/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

On 2015-04-24 10:55 (+0200), Paulo Silva wrote:
> (and i have a "cleaning" script with "sudo rm
> /usr/share/inkscape/palettes/*" for assuring i haven't available the
> original palettes )

Nevermind - this manual tinkering with inkscape's installed shared resources (deleting all palettes which are installed and shared by Inkscape) apparently causes that no other palettes are loaded either.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

With a single GPL file still kept alive in the default (system) location for Inkscape's shared resources (e.g. the default inkscape palette 'inkscape.gpl'), the user-installed palettes show up just fine.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Seems to be intentional (caveat: I could be wrong - I don't code C/C++ myself):

<quote>

    loadEmUp();
    if ( !systemSwatchPages.empty() ) {
</quote>
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/RELEASE_0_91_BRANCH/view/head:/src/ui/dialog/swatches.cpp#L609

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Based on tests with archived builds (not reproduced with r11752, reproduced with r11759), this seems to be a regression introduced in rev 11757 to fix bug #1060563:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/11757#src/ui/dialog/swatches.cpp

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Fixed in lp:inkscape rev. 15093 and in lp:inkscape/0.92.x rev. 15058.