[Openicc] inner versus outer ICC profile names

[Lars Borg]

In the more general case, you have to deal with embedded profiles 
with no file name.

An example: An option to replace the embedded profile with a proflle from disk.
You need to show the embedded profile as the no-change option. It has 
an internal description only.
The menu of replacement candidates need to use the same name space, 
or else the user wonders why the profile they selected changes name 
when embedded.

Thus, for consistency use primarilly the internal names.

Lars

At 6:26 PM +0100 1/29/08, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
>Am 29.01.08, 09:14 -0800 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
>
>>  I had not even considered it at this level but I agree.  As an example LProf
>>  has it's own custom widgets for selecting ICC profiles and CGATS files.  The
>>  CGATS widgets are probably too specialized to be part of a general 
>>widget set
>>  but it would make sense to have a widget like LProf's ICCProfileSelector be
>>  part of a tool kit like Qt or Gtk.
>>
>>  For those who have not looked at this widget it presents a list of 
>>profiles to
>>  the user based on the content of the profiles (IE. the description embedded
>>  in the profile).  This is how commercial programs like photoshop and the
>>  Microsoft Color Control Panel applet list profiles for users to 
>>select.  Many
>>  of our current open source color management aware applications are still
>>  presenting users with lists of files rather than lists of profiles in part I
>>  suspect because implementing a widget like LProf uses is not 
>>trivial.  If the
>>  various tool kits had this type of widget it would help everyone 
>>improve this
>>  aspect of our application suit.
>>
>>  I am sure that we could come up with other examples of usefull CM specific
>>  widgets or CM extensions to existing widgets as well.
>
>My feeling is that, the users connection of a profiles selected by its
>inner name in a profile widget and the same in a file browser is
>easily broken.
>
>Therefore I'd rather fix the profile choices to pure outer names and omit
>the inner description in lists with a single name per profile.
>
>
>Hope it was ok to change to subject line,
>Kai-Uwe Behrmann
>--
>developing for colour management
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>
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