[Openicc] Promoting colormanagement... X11

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello list, hello Graeme
It makes sense, that X11 is not doing color transformations. But it may 
makes sense, that X11 delivers the needed informtion, which monitor 
profile is currently active and delivers also some validation, if the 
current active monitor profile and the current video-LUT fit together.

So every colormanagement aware application has a place to get the 
profile and non CM aware apps function like today.

Regards
Jan-Peter

Graeme Gill wrote:
> 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.
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