[Openicc] inner versus outer ICC profile names

[Alastair M. Robinson]

Hi,

Hal V. Engel wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 21:45:23 Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:

> I often use fairly long detailed descriptions in my profiles that are very 
> different from the files names and I find this very useful.

Likewise.  For one thing, I tend to include the creation date.  While 
the two should "match", it can't be relied upon to be an exact rather 
than fuzzy match.

> I think the reason that this is even an issue is that we have many open source 
> apps that have diverged from accepted pratice and are using file names in the 
> UI rather than the description from the profile.  This is what we need to fix 
> and not descriptions that are different from the file name.

PhotoPrint using filenames rather than inner names was originally a 
performance thing - I didn't want to have to open every single profile 
in the search paths just to display them in the widget.

That rationale no longer holds however, because they have to be opened 
anyway to filter them by colourspace, so I think I shall move to 
displaying the Inner name by preference, and making sure the filename is 
available as a tooltip.

All the best,
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Alastair M. Robinson