[Openicc] Questions to LCMS, monitor profiles and LINUX CM aware apps

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Jan-Peter Homann wrote:

>  - Do current CM aware LINUX apps use LCMS on the standard place or is it
>  common, that every app installs their own version of LCMS ?

none of them ships its own copy of lcms

>  - is there a common place for the monitor profile under LINUX ?

Yes

/usr/share/color/icc, usr/local/share/color/icc and /home/user/.color/icc

>  - Do CM aware LINUX app take the monitor profile from this place ?

Yes. Or read it from grahic subsystem like X11 (GIMP, Inkscape)

>  - Do we have a mechanism to change the active monitor profile and all CM
>  aware LINUX apps will notice automatically this change ?

Not yet. Oyranos is the tool to do it. Work in progress.

Alexandre