[Openicc] Promoting colormanagement for LINUX

[Graeme Gill]

Hal V. Engel wrote:

> I think that we need to keep in mind that all of these DEs and widget sets are 
> built on top of X11 and that X11 is the software layer that is common to all 
> DEs and window managers in the open source arena.  Anything that is done to 
> improve CM in X11 benefits all of these tools where as improvements made in 
> KDE or Gnome or QT or GTK... only benefit a subset of users/applications.

Hmm. I think the X11 folks have decided that CM is exactly NOT what X11
should be doing, at least going by the "State of X" google talk.
See <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oFxhqYn-g0> at the 17:00 mark.

And to a fair degree I think they are right. There might well
be architectural reasons for placing certain parts of the
functionality in the X server, but the primary issues with
doing this at the moment is the standards one. Color isn't a
done technology that everyone agrees on. Build something like
a current CMM into the X server, and it will only be a short
while before people are fretting about how it then locks them
into an "old fashioned" work flow for old hardware and old
applications, and is an "extra layer of complexity" that has
to be bypassed.

Graeme Gill.