[Openicc] Anounce : Oyranos Version 0.1.8

[Hal V. Engel]

On Sunday 02 November 2008 03:50:50 Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Cyrille checked the code into:
>
> svn co
> svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/graphics/kolor-manager
>
> It should be compatible with the new Oyranos version.
>
>
> I'd guess it is a bit too early for main streaming the dialog to KDE
> installations by default. There is some more work required to make it well
> designed, functional and tested. Nethertheless it is a valuable base to
> continue with.
>
> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann


I have tested the new version of Oyranos and the version of KM in KDE svn.  
Everything works OK with in the limits of what is supported by Oyranos and the 
rest of the system.  The monitor CM configuration stuff works nicely and all 
you have to do to make it completely functional in KDE4 is to add oyranos-
monitor to System Settings -> Autostart and to have xcalib installed.  This 
works fine on my dual monitor xinerama system but xcalib may not work on 
XRandR 1.2 systems.  I have not tested that configuration.  As an option you 
should install icc-examin as this will enable the KM to icc-examin 
integration.   The current functionality in KM is comparable to the Windows 
Color Management Control Panel Widget and when everything is working it will 
have more functionality.  

One nice enhancement to KM would be to have it automatically add oyranos-
monitor to the KDE Autostart list if a user configures a monitor profile.  At 
this point KM has some stuff for configuring printers and scanners that is 
functional in KM but not connected to anything in the system and some code 
related to configuring cameras that is commented out.  Scanner, camera and 
printer devices are currently not supported by Oyranos and of course there is 
lots of work that needs to happen with printing work flows before it makes 
sense to support this in Oyranos and KM.  Extending Oyranos and then KM to 
fully support scanner and camera functionality should be fairly simple.

I think we should target KDE 4.3 for inclusion of KM since work on 4.2 is well 
underway at this point.  In any case users who are running KDE4 should have a 
look at the Oyranos, xcalib, icc-examin and KM combination since this setup is 
already fairly feature rich and it will give you some ideas about what this 
type of UI will look like.  It will also provide an opportunity to provide 
feed back.   In addition it provides all of the functionality of oyranos-
config-fltk plus monitor configuration so this is a more complete GUI than 
oyranos-config-fltk.

This version of Oyranos needs version 0.7.0 of elektra and if you had older 
versions of elektra and Oyranos installed you will need to clean up the 
Oyranos sections of the elektra database.  Remove /usr/etc/kdb/sw/oyranos and 
~/.kdb/usr/sw/oyranos.  If you had an older version of KM installed you should 
also remove ~/.kde<vesrion>/share/config/kolor-manager-globals where <version> 
is distro specific.  This will give you a clean start with the current 
versions of Oyranos and KM.

As a side note OpenICC has been in the GSoC program for two years now and has 
had 4 GSoC projects.  So far all of our projects have been successful (meaning 
that the students got enough work done to get a passing grade for the 
project).  So we have had a 100% pass rate where GSoC has about an 70% overall 
pass rate. Last years LProf project is now included as part of the LProf main 
line and the KM project is now in KDE svn and could appear in a not too 
distant release of KDE (does anyone know what the status is of the code 
created for last years HDR tone mapping project is?).   So we are having a 
fairly high success rate with our GSoC projects no matter how you measure it 
as many of these projects either don't get a passing grade or do not get far 
enough along to be included in a real world project.  It would be really great 
if we could get this years CM Near X project into good enough shape to get it 
accepted by the compitz project and maybe someone here has some ideas about 
how to go about that.

Hal