[colord] colord integration code examples to query display profile

[Richard Hughes]

On 29 April 2012 18:31, Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn at pcode.nl> wrote:
> So I'm guessing the following is preferred whenever "Try to use system
> profile" is enabled (in any application):
> 1. Ask colord which profile to apply
> 2. use _ICC_PROFILE
> 3. fall back to srgb if all else fails.

Yes, that's probably sane.

> Is there any example code, to get a display ICC profile for whatever
> display an application is currently placed on?

Sure, there's python and C here:

https://gitorious.org/colord/master/blobs/master/examples/cd-find-device-by-property.py
https://gitorious.org/colord/master/blobs/master/examples/cd-libcolord-find-device-by-property.c

> This is probably the single most common use-case of querying colord,
> it would probably help adoption if there were near-drop-in example
> code.

Sure. Do you want me to do some example code that can work out the
correct device from the X window ID? gnome-color-manager used to
provide that, but it got lost when we converted everything into
gnome-settings-daemon.

Richard.