Inkscape 1.0 not using my custom palette

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I was happy to see the 1.0 release but I waited a little while in case there were any reports of gotchas. I didn’t see any so I upgraded with only 1 small issue. My Glowforge template got removed. That was easily fixed by simply restoring it from a ZIP backup.

I then started to work on a new project and found a big one: my Glowforge palette was not there. I can see the Glowforge.gpl file in the Inkscape\share\palettes folder:

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Yet when I try to change the palette in Inkscape it does not list it. All I see are the stock palettes:

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I’ve tried some Google-fu but have not found anything that would explain this. Has anyone else run into it or better yet gotten Inkscape to use the custom palette??

Bruce

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Have you completely closed all inkscape windows and reopened?

I know that it only loads some stuff at startup like fonts. Maybe the same with palettes?

(My custom palette From 0.92x works fine)

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I have (with every test).

I also just noodled out a fix. One of the older threads I had bookmarked said “Copy the file into the palettes directory of your Inkscape install.”. So I put my palette into c:\Apps\Inkscape\share\palettes (at least thats where I found them after I upgraded).

However I just found a post from March that mentioned %APPDATA%\Roaming\inkscape\palettes (Im on a Win10 system). When I checked that folder I found it empty. Copying my Glowforge.gpl from c:\Apps\Inkscape\share\palette into C:\Users\Bruce\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\palettes (and restarting Inkscape) fixed the issue.

I wonder if upgrading removed my Glowforge.gpl from the %APPDATA%\Roaming\Inkscape\palettes folder and I simply found an unused Glowforge.gpl file I had put there (but Inkscape never actually used). In any case, I’ll go back to lurking and doing some playing with Inkscape. Thanks for the quick response.

Bruce

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