Selecting ""Named colours" fails to find rgb.txt

[jtappin]

Binary package hint: kcolorchooser

I'm not sure whether this should really be considered a problem with kcolorchooser or with xorg.

When the KDE colour selector is asked to use "Named colours", it fails to find the list of named colours. The error window says:

Unable to read X11 RGB colour strings. The following file location(s) were examined:
/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/rgb.txt

I have checked in packages.ubuntu.com and in Jaunty there are no packages that provide any of the above files.

(Since selecting some of the "40 colours" adds a name I'm assuming that X has changed how it handles colour naming and the "Named colours" in kcolorchooser hasn't caught up).

[emillo (emiliano-grilli)]

Packages xcolors and xcolorsel have a similar problem:

xcolors
/etc/X11/rgb.txt: No such file or directory

xcolorsel
Error: Cannot open RgbTxtFile "/etc/X11/rgb.txt".

which renders them unuseable

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

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[jtappin (sjt)]

It appears that the problem has gone away sometime in the last 3 years.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

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