Force Qt's cross-platform color dialog and sort the Basic colors grid by hue

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Resolves: musescore/MuseScore#34753

Qt's default "Basic colors" grid in QColorDialog is an unsorted
historical palette; it's now replaced by a grayscale ramp followed by
a hue sweep so it reads as an ordered gradient.

Also forces QColorDialog::DontUseNativeDialog so the dialog picks up
the app's theme palette (applied globally by WidgetStyle) instead of
falling back to the OS-native color panel (e.g. NSColorPanel on
macOS), and sets an explicit transient parent + native window handle
so the dialog stays modal to and on top of the app's QQuickWindows,
which Qt::ApplicationModal alone does not affect since it only
enforces modality within the QWidget world.

This is a prerequisite for the Mixer track color feature
(musescore/MuseScore#34754), which relies on a consistent, unified
color picker across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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selectColor now initializes eight grayscale colors followed by 48 hue-sorted colors. The dialog uses Qt’s cross-platform implementation. It sets application modality, creates a native window, uses topWindow() as its transient parent, and displays with show().

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f494e

The color picker now uses a consistent application-owned dialog across platforms, but unusual interruption paths or platform-specific window-manager behavior may prevent full modal containment or cleanup of dialog state. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up validation.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The changes implement the unified color-picker prerequisite described in issue [#34753]. They do not implement the issue’s primary Mixer functionality, including channel color assignment, visual appli…	Implement or link the remaining [#34753] requirements for Mixer channel color assignment, channel-strip accent colors, reset behavior, and project persistence. If this PR is only a prerequisite, link it from the implementation PR or update …
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 1 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the two main changes: forcing Qt’s cross-platform color dialog and sorting the Basic colors grid by hue.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the linked issue, motivation, implementation summary, checklist, and build configuration. The unit test checkbox remains unchecked, but it is conditional and does not make the…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are focused on QColorDialog behavior and palette ordering. They support the unified color-picker requirement for [#34753] and do not include unrelated code changes.

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The changes implement the unified color-picker prerequisite described in issue [#34753]. They do not implement the issue’s primary Mixer functionality, including channel color assignment, visual application, or project persistence.

Resolution

Implement or link the remaining [#34753] requirements for Mixer channel color assignment, channel-strip accent colors, reset behavior, and project persistence. If this PR is only a prerequisite, link it from the implementation PR or update the issue relationship to reflect that scope.

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In `@framework/interactive/internal/interactive.cpp`:
- Line 590: Update the QColorDialog display flow to call show() instead of
open(), preserving the previously configured Qt::ApplicationModal behavior and
keeping other application windows blocked.
- Line 539: Update the standard grayscale color initialization around
QColorDialog::setStandardColor so each color uses the Qt grid index row + column
* numRows(), mapping the ramp across the first row in the six-row, eight-column
layout instead of sequentially down the first column.

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[tharos-devs]

Could this PR #262 fix this issue? musescore/MuseScore#31223

I don't have access to a Linux environment at the moment to verify and validate it.