Cannot color parts

[madpipeline]

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Problem description

Workflow:

• Part workbench
• Create a part (cylinder for example)
• Right click part in tree view
• Select Random color
• Right click part in tree view
• Select Appearance...
• Find the menu with the random color assigned and open it to see the color picker
• Copy the randomly chosen color (the HTML string "#xxxxxx")
• Create another part
• Right click part in tree view
• Select Appearance...
• Find the same menu and open the color picker
• paste the color (html string)
• Save the change

Desired result

Both parts to have the same color on all their faces.

Actual result

In FreeCAD 0.21.2 stable release, this works as expected.

In Ondsel ES 2024.2.2 this does not work:

• After assigning the random color, opening the Appearance... menu resets the color.
• The "Shape color" menu is missing. Button that exists next to the Line color and Point color buttons.
  • I expect it's location has changed, it was renamed, or split in multiple places. This is unclear.
• Changing any color in the Shape appearance menu does nothing to the part.
• Changing the color of the lines or points works.

Full version info

OS: Fedora Linux 40 (KDE Plasma) (KDE/plasma)
Word size of Ondsel: 64-bit
Version: 2024.2.2.37240 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 2024.2.2)
Hash: fbb794cd2e56fba5fd911c8832332b5e5e235319
Python 3.11.9, Qt 5.15.13, Coin 4.0.2, Vtk 9.2.6, OCC 7.7.2
Locale: Romanian/Romania (ro_RO)
Installed mods: 
  * Ondsel-Lens 2024.7.5.02

Subproject(s) affected?

Part

Anything else?

It would be useful to have a simpler way to color multiple parts the same color.

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[madpipeline]

I have tried this with FreeCAD dev build:

OS: Fedora Linux 40 (KDE Plasma) (KDE/plasma)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.22.0dev.38385 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: main
Hash: 58241e027e7187a1ecaeeb75668ef9a497437c68
Python 3.11.9, Qt 5.15.13, Coin 4.0.2, Vtk 9.2.6, OCC 7.7.2
Locale: Romanian/Romania (ro_RO)

Behaviour is:

• reset of color still happens when opening the Appearance... menu on a part
• Setting the color from the Custom appearance -> Ambient color works. The part's faces are now colored.

[madpipeline]

I found this issue that seems to be related to this: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/14779