Incomplete standard stylesheet in 6.0pre32 (jaunty)

[Dietmar Winkler]

Binary package hint: ipe

The ipe 6.0pre32 version of Jaunty is missing the gray-colour definitions. These are crucial in order to be able to edit files created with the previous Intrepid 6.0pre30 version.

To see what's missing I've attached a diff file between the standard style sheets of pre30(intrepid) and pre32(jaunty).

Mind this bug is not asking to do any merging of additional colours like in bug #291122. It just should provide backward compatible way.

[Dietmar Winkler (dietmarw)]

Here just to illustrate how the colour map looks like in the current version of 6.0pre32, i.e., not very nice at all.

[Dietmar Winkler (dietmarw)]

I did some more experiments and even re-defining the gray colours or adding additional colour definitions is completely ignored. Even worse if I import this colour definition:
<ipestyle name="colourmap">
<color name="gray1" value="0.125"/>
<color name="gray2" value="0.25"/>
<color name="gray3" value="0.375"/>
<color name="gray4" value="0.5"/>
<color name="gray5" value="0.625"/>
<color name="gray6" value="0.75"/>
<color name="gray7" value="0.875"/>
</ipestyle>

and write it back out again via "save style sheet" it gets converted to:
<ipestyle name="colourmap">
<color name="gray1" value="black"/>
<color name="gray2" value="black"/>
<color name="gray3" value="black"/>
<color name="gray4" value="black"/>
<color name="gray5" value="black"/>
<color name="gray6" value="black"/>
<color name="gray7" value="black"/>
</ipestyle>

Not really sure if this is an upstream or packaging issue.

[Dietmar Winkler (dietmarw)]

The reason for the colour pallet is actually related to bug 364113. See there for a workaround and hopefully a fix.