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What would it take to make KDE the manager of common resources, such as colours (in a similar way to the way fonts are already managed).

In the colour example, I'd like to see KDE accept a variety of palette formats as input but map them to a common internal canonical protocol so that they can all be utilised as though native. I don't mean translate them to a different form and store that instead, I mean store the original form, and expose it in the canonical form through an on-demand mapping/binding. I'd hope to be able to create a palette on Linux/KDE and import it onto my Mac without any additional translation steps (other that the save option: 'for mac') or vice-versa.

I'd like to be able to create a single palette for mac, and Linux/KDE (no idea what Windows does in this area) and be confident that all applications will be able to access the palette. I believe Macs already have a centrally managed palette scheme and Adobe products can utilise them.

The 'pain' driving this is that I am an interaction designer/UX researcher/UI designer working for a large enterprise. We have a corporate colour palette that I need to use whichever platform I'm on. I use Kubuntu and OSX at work and OpenSuse at home.

I can't think of other resources I'd want to manage like this (perhaps sounds, some common interaction configurations, biographical details )

Any takers?