[Openicc] Promoting colormanagement for LINUX

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello list,

Following the discussion on this list the last years, I see that 
colormanagement under LINUX is now entering the mass market:

- LCMS is established as standard CMM for LINUX applications
- The first mass market applications like e.g. Firefox are now 
colormanagement aware
- monitor profiling solutions like e.g. Argyll / LProf are available by 
reverse engineering of the measurement device drivers
- Big players like e.g. Apple integrate OSS solutions into Mac OSX / 
Apple applications e.g:
    - CUPS
    - Gutenprint
    - Parts of the Safari engine
    - (and several more...)

What could be the next steps:

1) Making the openICC wiki the first adress for best practice in OSS 
colormanagement
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- OSS developers should find all necessary informations at the openICC 
wiki to know what steps they have to go in general to make their 
application CM aware
- developers of applicatios, which are already CM aware should describe 
how they have implemented it in general, and which libraries, code 
snippets are available for other developers
- testfiles and test procedures for validating CM functionality in apps 
should be available via the open ICC-wiki

2) Influencing KDE and trolltech
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(Please correct me, if i´m technically wrong in the following statement...)
KDE and trolltech/QT are very important organisations / companies for 
the LINUX community. If colormanagement is good integrated into their 
libraries / apps, it will make it much easier for other OSS developers 
to use just this libraries / apps to make their own projects 
colormanagement aware.

As the firefox team has managed to implement colormanagement, also KDE 
will have to do this for Konqueror and KParts in future. Especially if 
KParts will be colormanagement aware, this will be a real big step for 
all OSS vendors reusing KParts into their applications.

As more or less all the KDE projects based on QT, a good colormanagement 
implementation in KDE projects will automatically enhance the 
colormanagement capatibilities of QT and so all OSS projects, which are 
using QT.

Proposal:
Using the OpenICC wiki to make the usage of color in QT and some 
representative KDE projects transparent. I would recommend to 
concentrate on Konqueror as file browser and Krita as one of the leading 
CM aware applications in the KDE universe.
The goal of this actions should be a good integration of LCMS into QT, 
support for embedded profiles in QT pixmaps and vector objects, getting 
the monitor profile from X11 / Oyranos in QT and the colormanagement of 
pixmaps and vector objects from the embedded profile to the 
monitor-profile into QT.

To make the OpenICC and this mailinglist more public, we can reference 
in the next steps in wikipedia in the KDE, QT, colormanagement etc. 
topics to the openICC wiki and the mailinglist.


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What do the others in this list think about this proposal ?

Regards
Jan-Peter




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