Add a use-as-default color scheme feature

USE CASE: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

User always makes the same color changes (e.g. inverts green/red and sets white as the middle color) on every file. They wish they could have files open with these settings for every new file.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE AN ISSUE (OR TRIGGER A NEW FEATURE)

Open a new file
Change the color settings
Click a "Use as default" button (not sure where this should go though)

CURRENT BEHAVIOR

There's no way to set a color scheme as default, though there is a related issue to create color presets (#438). It doesn't have a way to set a default scheme however.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

There should be a way to save a color scheme as the default used.

DEVELOPERS ONLY SECTION SUGGESTED CHANGE (Pseudocode optional)

After implementing issue #438, Add a "Use as default" button next to the presets select list in the Colors dialog. Also, it's probably advisable to move the "Missing Data" color button to somewhere else that visually associates it with the color bar instead of the presets select list (though I'm not sure exactly where).

There should also be a use as default button inside the presets dialog that issue #438 prescribes. That dialog should depict which preset is the default in some way while preserving the depiction of the current preset as different (e.g. the bolded preset in the example shown).

The programmer will have to pay particular attention to the different TYPES of color schemes. I know that binary data gets a 2-color color scheme, so you would may want to use the end-colors the user set when they click use as default.

FILES AFFECTED (where the changes will be implemented) - developers only

unknown.

LEVEL OF EFFORT - developers only

medium

COMMENTS

This issue should be implemented AFTER issue #438. This feature was requested by a user via email.

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