QGIS Ignores Bundled .qml Style Files Inside Zipped Shapefile Layers
When a shapefile is loaded directly from inside a ZIP archive in QGIS, the software ignores a matching .qml style file packaged in the same archive and instead applies a default random-color symbol, even though extracting the archive first lets the style load correctly. Users who want to distribute self-contained styled layers as a single zip currently cannot, and the existing workaround of naming a .qml after the zip breaks when multiple layers are bundled together.
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