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

Graeme Gill graeme at argyllcms.com
Wed Apr 23 01:29:29 PDT 2008


Tomas Carnecky wrote:

> Simply attaching the whole ICC profile to the window would waste memory. 
> Once toolkits start using it, then on a normal desktop you will have ~20 
> windows each with the same profile attached and you end up with wasted 
> memory from duplicated profiles.

_ICC_PROFILE isn't attached to "windows", it's attached to the
root window (more then one only if the root window is composed
on more than one monitor), or in the case of XRandR 1.2, the output
so there is a 1:1 correspondence between the number of monitors and the
number of profiles. The number of application windows doesn't come into it.

Graeme Gill.


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