[Openicc] OpenIccForGoogleSoC2007 online

[Hal V. Engel]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 22:28, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Welcome Hal on the OpenICC GSoC projects list.
>
> Your projects are covering some common ground.
>
> Would you mind in formulating the DDC and DDC/CI stuff as a
> independent library? Thus these projects interesst potentially new
> mentors. As well the ddccontrol project would be nice to mention as a good
> starting point.

I am 100% in line with this.  In addition I would like any library to be OS 
independent if possible.  But if nothing else having a library for this stuff 
available for xorg based systems would be a significant improvement over our 
current situation.  Also as a side note MS Vista now has what appears to be a 
complete DDC/CI API.  So perhaps any xorg API could be modeled on the Vista 
API to make it easier to create higher level OS independent wrapper 
libraries. 

> A usual requirement is to run monitor state queries without root
> privilegs.
> Possibly this projects needs some way of integration into Xorg or HAL too
> and they are interessted in bringing in their knowledge.

I have never been able to get ddccontrol to work on my system but perhaps 
there are issues with my hardware or video drivers and I have not 
investigated this in any detail.  At one point they approached the lm_sensors 
project with a request to add the ddccontrol functionality to lm_sensors.  
Never really made sense to me since I didn't understand how this in anyway 
could fit into lm_sensors.  I think this should be part of xorg and I think 
if the ddccontrol folks were approached with a proposal to integrate their 
functionality into xorg that they would be delighted.  So I agree that it is 
a good starting point and that their team would bring a lot of expertise to 
the table.

>
>
> regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
> --
> development for color management
> www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org + www.cinepaint.org
>
> Am 18.02.07, 00:11 +0100 schrieb Kai-Uwe Behrmann:
> > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIccForGoogleSoC2007
> > is online.
> >
> > There is room for projects ideas and mentors.
>
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