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Release notes: custom colormaps location (PlotPy 2.12) - #459

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Release notes (and French translation) for the new location of custom colormaps, which comes from PlotPyStack/PlotPy#70 (fixed by PlotPyStack/PlotPy#88).

Until now, custom colormaps created with the colormap manager never reached DataLab's configuration directory. Their location depended on how DataLab was started:

Context Before With PlotPy ≥ 2.12.0
DataLab application (datalab.app) ~/.plotpy ~/.DataLab_v1/plotpy
Scripts / tests importing datalab.config first ~/.none ~/.DataLab_v1/plotpy

The first time, colormaps from the former .none and .plotpy directories are copied to the new location (legacy files are left untouched). This was checked with DataLab develop in an isolated home directory.

No code change in DataLab: initialize() already calls Conf.set_plotpy_application(config_app_name), which now takes effect for colormaps as well. The companion SigimaX docstring update uses the same branch name.

With PlotPy 2.12 (PlotPyStack/PlotPy#70), custom colormaps are saved in
the "plotpy" subdirectory of DataLab's configuration directory instead
of the ".plotpy" or ".none" directory shared with other applications.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5
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