[colord] Different results when applying the same icc profile in "Color" GUI application and directly in color managed apps

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 10:52:06 UTC 2020


On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 13:40, Dmitry Safonov <dmitry.s.safonov at gmail.com> wrote:
> But at some point of time I tried to use the icc profile from the internet in Firefox, which has a way to manually assign an icc profile, and the colors in Firefox got almost perfect, the
> change was very noticeable and pleasing. Then I also tried to specify that profile in GIMP, and the results were also great.

Firefox doesn't retrieve the system ICC profile from colord
unfortunately. It used to read the _ICC_PROFILE X atom, but since
switching to wayland this is always going to be unset. Unfortunately
apps without colord support have to have the profile set manually :(

Richard


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