[colord] Why is colord a daemon?

[Richard Hughes]

On 13 April 2015 at 21:37, Mattias Andrée <maandree at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> Nope. The sensor can only be used by one process at a
>> time, and so we provide an interface to lock the sensor
>> before returning results. There are also several ways to
>> get the sensor readings, so we also abstract all the
>> grotty details.
>
> But that could be done in a spawn process.

Sure, one that lives for the duration of the sensor being locked. It
wouldn't help programs like gnome-control-center asking questions like
"Is there a calibration device available right now?" without
enumerating each device type each time.

> And I believe it is not necessary but that it could have
> made for a simpler solution.

Sure, but please keep in mind I don't add complexity for the sake of
complexity -- there are a lot of different use cases, a lot of
different workflows and a lot of different legacy standards and code.
:)

Richard.