[cairo] Adding a color management interface to GTK

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Sun Jan 24 00:33:06 PST 2010


On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 
> And the performance hit of that is, well, huge. There's a reason Apple
> and Microsoft haven't put the CMM in the window manager. It's a cool
> trick, but in my opinion, not a good idea.

From what I've been told about Snow Leopard, this is exactly what's happening on OS 10.6. Full display compensation system wide. If the object isn't explicitly tagged, the source is assumed to be sRGB. The destination is display RGB, which by default is a profile build on the fly from EDID.


Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
New York, NY
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Co-author "Real World Color Management, 2nd Ed"


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