[Openicc] Profile installation and association for Linux/Unix/X11

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Graeme,

we have at the OpenICC wiki site a entry for proposals and specifications:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc#head-1bad4bb0cd80705093d361cb62507514bc1bc6b7
There you can find a link to the OpenICC Directory Proposal:
http://www.oyranos.com/wiki/index.php?title=OpenIccDirectoryProposal


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org


Am 21.04.08, 01:58 +1000 schrieb Graeme Gill:

> I've been working on the installation details for display ICC profiles
> on various operating systems, and was wondering if there is any
> consensus with regard to Linux & X11.
> 
> The profiles stored in the root window _ICC_PROFILE property (and the parallel
> one that I store in the XrandR 1.2 output property) will like all properties
> be volatile, lasting only as long as the X server, and hence will need
> re-loading every time the X11 server starts. It would be good to have
> a convention as to where installed profiles live, and what device
> they are associated with.
> 
> Location for storing profiles that I'm aware of are:
> 
> 	/usr/share/color/icc
> 	/usr/local/share/color/icc
> 	~/.color/icc
> 	/usr/local/share/Scribus/profiles
> 
> Are there any others ?
> Is there any consensus on the preferred location ?
> 
> Is there any convention as to how the information is stored
> as to a particular profiles association with a device ?
> 
> Without such a convention, it's not really possible to setup a general
> mechanism to ensure that the display root window properties are
> set correctly, or that the display calibration is initialized properly.
> 
> Of course it would be easy enough to invent a simple text file
> format that lives in the color directory to map profile names
> to a device name, that will work with my particular toolset if
> there is no particular convention to be followed.
> 
> Graeme Gill.