Many developers still think software is feature-driven. So they want all these nice buttons eg. "Hurt me", "Hit me!" so they can tell their boss their users have "choice". Then the users cry about their pain. <div>
<br></div><div>It's really hard to tell naive users with an uncalibrated screen that if they have color issues on a color-managed printer then the right place to fix them is in a graphics app. Most users want print controls which basically fix their wrong screen profile. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Edmund<br><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Michael Sweet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msweet@apple.com">msweet@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Jan 30, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> Unfortunedly the colord hook in CUPS side steps the CUPS communication<br>
> paths. It is easily possible to print with the active profile of an<br>
> other user. It was mentioned that the three selectors are not sufficient<br>
> to select the correct calibration state. Users can easily change gamma,<br>
> brightness in the print dialog and get no warning while using the same<br>
> profile. So users need practical to check each time that nothing changed<br>
> in one of the unpredictable way outlined. That kind of colour transform<br>
> is useful for testing, but too unrelyable for production. Management<br>
> implies a level of securing conditions.<br>
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</div>I hope you have read all of my posts saying that "gamma" and "brightness" controls are deprecated in CUPS and have no place in these discussions?<br>
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