[Openicc] CUPS Color Management under Linux gets into distros

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 05.03.11, 08:54 -0800 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
> On Friday, March 04, 2011 06:37:40 PM Chris Murphy wrote:
>> Better than nothing, but why should the user have to set things up to get
>> sensible results? It seems like it's the nonsensical results that should
>> require intervention to obtain.
>>
>>
>> Chris Murphy
>
> Currently digiKam is opt in.  So users have to turn CM on and set things like
> the display profile.   This is an artifact of the digiKam team doing the CM
> work before we had things like ICC_PROFILE X11 atoms.  At this point most
> systems still don't have this atom set.  In general I agree that basic CM
> should just work without user intervention but this requires that systems have
> utilities installed for setting up display profiles including setting the X11
> ICC_PROFILE atom.   Most systems currently don't have this stuff installed and
> many distros don't even have packages so that users can install these without
> having to resort to building these from source.

I remember lcms was at some time not part of distributions. Then came some 
applications, which required it and packagers wanted those applications to 
ship. The same might happen for lcms2, if application developer or users 
do not care, then packagers have typical no idea about the one or other 
library. If things are optional in the stack, they are at risc to get 
ignored.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org