A directory for color profiles

James Richard Tyrer tyrerj at acm.org
Mon Oct 15 13:18:49 PDT 2007


Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007, Sven Neumann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:10 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>> I presume that these should go in:
>>>
>>> 	/usr/share/color/profiles
>> I suggest that you follow the OpenICC Directory Proposal
>>
>> http://www.oyranos.com/wiki/index.php?title=OpenIccDirectoryProposal
>>
>> as linked from http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc
> Re-reading the spec, am I correct that I am allowed to create a directory 
> in /usr/share/color/profiles called, for instance, "koffice" and copy the 
> profiles inside, and that would solve the conflict problem in case scribus or 
> the gimp also ship those profiles ?
> 
IIUC, while that is not the intent of the spec, which is for apps to 
share profile files, it does appear that since the XDG directory "icc" 
is to be searched recursively that this would work.

-- 
JRT


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