[Openicc] inner versus outer ICC profile names

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 29.01.08, 09:14 -0800 schrieb Hal V. Engel:

> I had not even considered it at this level but I agree.  As an example LProf 
> has it's own custom widgets for selecting ICC profiles and CGATS files.  The 
> CGATS widgets are probably too specialized to be part of a general widget set 
> but it would make sense to have a widget like LProf's ICCProfileSelector be 
> part of a tool kit like Qt or Gtk.
> 
> For those who have not looked at this widget it presents a list of profiles to 
> the user based on the content of the profiles (IE. the description embedded 
> in the profile).  This is how commercial programs like photoshop and the 
> Microsoft Color Control Panel applet list profiles for users to select.  Many 
> of our current open source color management aware applications are still 
> presenting users with lists of files rather than lists of profiles in part I 
> suspect because implementing a widget like LProf uses is not trivial.  If the 
> various tool kits had this type of widget it would help everyone improve this 
> aspect of our application suit. 
> 
> I am sure that we could come up with other examples of usefull CM specific 
> widgets or CM extensions to existing widgets as well.
 
My feeling is that, the users connection of a profiles selected by its 
inner name in a profile widget and the same in a file browser is 
easily broken.

Therefore I'd rather fix the profile choices to pure outer names and omit 
the inner description in lists with a single name per profile.


Hope it was ok to change to subject line,
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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developing for colour management 
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