Linux for Designers

Gimp, Inkscape and Agave using the same color palette format (*.gpl), but all of them shipped with their own color palettes and using just their own.
Following the ideas of color management profiles i tried to make all my color palettes available system wide:

• I moved any color palette of Inkscape (/usr/share/inkscape/palettes) to ~/.color/palettes and
  linked from ~/.inkscape/palettes to ~/.color/palettes

• I moved any color palette of Gimp (/usr/share/gimp/2.0/palettes) to ~/.color/palettes and
  linked from ~/.gimp-2.6/palettes to ~/.color/palettes

• I linked from /usr/share/agave/palettes to ~/.color/palettes

Now all these apps using the same color palettes and when i create a new one and save it at ~/.color/palettes any of these apps has it available. I'm a little bit disapointed that Scribus and OpenOffice didn't support color palettes in the *.gpl format (hey guys this should be improved ). An overview about applications and color palette formats are available at freedesktop.org.

Update 15.11.2008:
I submitted the missing support for Gimp color palette files (*.gpl) at the Scribus bug tracker and they fixed that issue very fast That's great!