Defining colors has low discoverability

[probonopd]

In most applications (e.g., on the Mac, this is even a system-wide function) you select some text or shape, then go to the color palette, and then assign a color to the text or shape by clicking somewhere on the color wheel. That's it.

In Scribus you need to "define" a color before you can assign it.

While this looks more cumbersome than necessary at first sight, it may actually help fight "color proliferation" (having similar but not identical colors in a document).

Still, it should be more intuitive to "define" a color, e.g., with a button "New" in the palette where you choose colors from:

It took me a while to look in other places because I'd have expected to see a "+" or "New" button there.

[aoloe]

"there should be an edit and a create button next to each resource (style, color, ...)"
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[probonopd]

Do you think there should also be the possibility to assign a color without defining it first? I am not sure whether the cons outweigh the pros.

Currently, the behavior is inconsistent: You can format a text on-the-fly without defining a style, but you cannot(?) assign a color without defining one.

[aoloe]

no, that should not be possible.
in dtp you need to have control on the colors your document contains.
but it should be trivial to create new colors and remove unused colors (the color names should be optional...)