[Openicc] A directory for color profiles

[Hal V. Engel]

On Tuesday 16 October 2007 02:41:56 Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:18:49 -0700
> > From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org>
> >
> > Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > > On Monday 15 October 2007, Sven Neumann wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:10 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > >>> I presume that these should go in:
> > >>>
> > >>> 	/usr/share/color/profiles
> > >>
> > >> I suggest that you follow the OpenICC Directory Proposal
> > >>
> > >> http://www.oyranos.com/wiki/index.php?title=OpenIccDirectoryProposal
> > >>
> > >> as linked from http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc
> > >
> > > Re-reading the spec, am I correct that I am allowed to create a
> > > directory in /usr/share/color/profiles called, for instance, "koffice"
> > > and copy the profiles inside, and that would solve the conflict problem
> > > in case scribus or the gimp also ship those profiles ?
> >
> > IIUC, while that is not the intent of the spec, which is for apps to
> > share profile files, it does appear that since the XDG directory "icc"
> > is to be searched recursively that this would work.
>
> What concerns do you see with recursive directory scanning?
>
>
> We had some requests from profile vendors to put in theire folder and
> thats the profile installation is done. Except this vendor grouping, we
> are free to easily support thematical grouping on a later stage. The
> profiles itselve give not always a glue about customer needs. The proposal
> touches the later feature already.
>
> Slighly similiar, of what I think, ColorSync allowes different locations
> too. This is for instance necessary to support the bundles approach. So
> the systems sees ICC profile folders inside bundles after some ColorSync
> calls.
>
> On windows I know about havy complaints to a single huge folder and many
> users not knowing, which files to clean up and which are vital. Not shure
> if this has gone with XP/Vista.

I don't know about Vista but XP is using a single system wide folder for 
profiles. 

>
> So until there is no other way around how to manage the masses of ICC
> profiles, I'd say nesting is essential. Of course the Oyranos
> implemtatation supports recursive directory scanning. As I see mentioning
> standard profiles from different applications, I'd like to point out,
> Oyranos shippes a group of standard profiles, like sRGB, AdobeRGB,
> ECI-v2(L-Star), ECI CMYK's, Lab/XYZ and some more. It is much like the
> Create shared resources.
>
>
> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
> --
> developing for colour management
> www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org + www.cinepaint.org
>
>
> PS: I croos post to OpenICC, so, sorry for double appearance.