The GIMP project has started working on adding color management features. They are at the point where they are taking about design issues and putting together some of the beginning code fragments. GIMP CVS now has a color management preferences dialog that at present does not do anything other than let you set some preferences. And work is underway on a plugin that does things like embedding profiles and doing color space transformations. This plugin is far enough along that it is usable on GIMP 2.x.
I know that others on this list are with projects that have implemented CM. For example, Scribus, CinePaint and GraphicsMagick have all implemented CM and folks who work on these projects are members of this list. Unlike Scribus, CinePaint and GraphicsMagick which are specialized applications GIMP is a very widely used application. I believe that GIMP adding CM brings CM to a point where this has reached critical mass in the open source world. It is time that there were at least some basic system wide CM standards put in place for open source platforms. I am taking the initiative to invite those interested in working with the GIMP team or following the progress of their CM project to join the GIMP-developer email list so that you can at least help to guide them away from pitfalls. And perhaps this will lead to additional work on open source standards for CM which would benefit everyone. -- Hal V. Engel
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