[colord] SpyderX troubles

Roland van Laar roland at rolandvanlaar.nl
Sun Dec 22 12:19:41 UTC 2019


On 22 December 2019 12:55:11 CET, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 at 11:06, Roland van Laar <roland at rolandvanlaar.nl>
>wrote:

Thanks for your apt reply.

>> > Calibration Failed!
>> How can we fix this?
>
>Someone else debugged this a few weeks ago,
Is there a bug report around?

> and found that the command
>line arguments that colord was expecting to use with argyllcms had
>changed. I've lost all appetite for trying to interface with an
>unstable command line interface (and screen scraping the output, which
>also keeps changing), and I'm actually pondering removing all the
>argyllcms support completely. Sorry that's not more encouraging news.
>

Which would mean dropping support for all Argyll supported devices, such as the spyderX family?

That's not good news. 

Are there alternatives? As in, could colord support these devices directly?

One more question, are color profiles video card and OS specific? If not at all, then I could generate them on Windows anyway.

- Roland

>Richard.

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