Am 26.05.04, 20:07 +0800 schrieb Stuart Nixon:

> ICC/CMS under Linux
> -------------------
>
> To get widespread usage of ICCs and CMS engines under Linux, we
> need a couple of things:
>
> 1.    A standard �system� profile directory. I believe
>       a directory has already been proposed although I can�t find the
>       original email.

/usr/share/color/icc and ~/.color/icc is the current state used by
CinePaint. Others are application specific.

> 4.    Developers should be encouraged to keep their own
>       application specific profiles in their own application
>       private directories.  This is to stop the problem that
>       is starting to happen under Windows - particularly with
>       digital SLR apps - where 100�s of application specific
>       profiles are getting dumped into the system profile directory.

What kind of application specific profiles is to been rolling over linux?
I like to ask for an example. Thanks

> That is pretty much it really.  So long as items�s 1 to 3 are done,
> then any self respecting application can implement the full CMS
> process under Linux in a user friendly way.  Even now, full CMS
> is doable under Linux; you just have to ask the user a couple of
> questions at the start.

last is proofed

> In my view, the monitor profile output, which is the final stage
> for onscreen display (even with soft proofing) is something
> the application needs to be aware of as part of its CMS processing.

An application should go the easy way and not care about, what is the
display doing and asking for further complications. It is
simple and sufficient to know about the workspace (Lab or sRGB, even
CMYK as workspace should remain used by experts only). Tuning of monitors
and printers is an very different thing. Or does it make creative to think
about the printer gamma while painting an flower?

> It should not be at the OS or X server level.

To reach an consitent feel over the desktop it would be nice to handle the
monitor as an whole device, not simple from the view of an application
window. Of course handling video, openGL, new data formats like nvidias
half and X-rendering consitently seems not an simple reachable goal.

Ka-Uwe



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