2009/11/25 Frank Hellenkamp: > >> 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. ;-)
Thanks for the feedback Frank. I leaning towards changing the default renderer to use device dependent colors as well in the near future. > > 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. :-) Björn -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
