[Openicc] common ICC profile directory

[Jim Gettys]

I would recommend a scheme something like that developed
for Fontconfig, where a set of directories (including one
in the user's home directory) get looked for for the files,
and caches are automatically recomputed (if needed).
In the font case, users may have thousands of fonts, and
doing orthographic coverage on them and selecting a usable
set of fonts can happen very fast, yet avoid mystic
installation hassles.

In the fontconfig case, this means that users can now
drop files into a users private font directory (or install them
into system font directories), and everything "just works",
without the user having to run some magic program.

Note that the code in early fontconfig releases were buggy,
necessitating manual recomputation of caches; this has
been fixed.
                       - Jim



On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 05:38, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
> In addition to having a system wide ICC directory, I think it's also 
> necessary to check a
> user level directory for profiles (e.g. ~/cmm/icc). THis way, a normal 
> user without root
> access can also install profiles.
> 
> A different approach would use just a configuration file (e.g in /etc) 
> that would list all
> directories that contain ICC profiles. This would allow our system to 
> work with other
> software packages that dump their profiles in any random directory. We 
> should still use
> the default directory we've talked about to store profiles, but find 
> and load them from
> all dirs listed in this config file.
> 
> Karl Heinz
> 
> 
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Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys at hp.com>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory