Hi Björn, hi all,

> I'll leave it up to MacVim users to decide which works best -- at the
> moment I'm only getting your reaction; I've yet to hear somebody say
> calibrated colors look better.  Maybe somebody with dual displays have
> something to say in favor of calibrated colors?

Calibrated probably sounds good at first *but*:

- Most user displays are not calibrated.
- Vim colors on other platforms are not calibrated as far as I know. I
would expect the same behaviour all platforms if I use the same vimrc.
- Since Apple switched to Windows Gamma
(http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3712) in Snow Leopard, the device colors
should be the basically the same on all platforms on the same(!) monitor.
- Browsers use uncalibrated colors for CSS-Values and (some brwosers)
only correct the colors in images with specific profiles.
(http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page3 and
http://webkit.org/blog/73/color-spaces/)
- I come from a web-design and development perspective. So everything I
do has normally uncalibrated/sRGB output, so that images (probably
calibrated) and CSS and Flash (uncalibrated) match.
The HTML5 and the CSS specifications are assuming sRGB for the most part
(http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/).

So *I* would expect vim to show the same color as my browser on the same
color value.  ;-)

But seriously:
It doesn't matter that much in the end, because MacVim is only the best
text editor out there, but not an image editing solution.

Frank

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