[Openicc] XICC specification draft

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Ben Guthro wrote:
> While I do see remote usage as important - how important is remote color 
> management? If initial releases of this spec say that remote windows remain 
> unmanaged, this might be acceptable.

Philosophically, I would say that remote color management (color 
management for any logical display) is as important as air and water 
and is actually one of the main reasons for this mailing list to exist 
in the first place.  It is one of the main unanswered questions which 
brought this group together. With some assistance from the X11 folks, 
it should be possible to answer the question with the same level of 
elegance which has allowed X11 to survive unscathed since the late 
'80s.

So if the remote X11 server is able to provide a CMS profile which 
describes itself to the client, then the client should be able to 
perform color management, or intelligently request that the server 
perform color management on its behalf.  The client and server are 
able to negotiate things like remote fonts, so it should be possible 
to negotiate ICC profiles as well.

Bob
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