[Openicc] OpenICC GSoC 2009 finalised
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
ku.b at gmx.de
Thu Aug 27 02:07:34 PDT 2009
Dear list readers,
Google Summer of Code 2009 projects have officially finished. All
projects at OpenICC are brought to successful end. Two projects could
almost be completed as planed. One could be brought to a reasonable end.
The code will shurely find its way into the according projects or is
already included. Even though further work is needed to get it full
functional.
Many thanks to all three students for their great commitment during
these months full of work and the community in giving a helpful hand. We
obtained as well helpful feedback on email lists of device related
projects.
Hal V. Engel, the mentor of Amit Kumar, stated the Qt4 work on LProf is
complete and is currently in a branch waiting to be merged into LProf main
line. I plan on cleaning up the GSoC2009 branch over the next few weeks
and merging it into the main line.
This project ran ahead of schedule almost from the beginning. In part
this was because it was not nearly as ambitious as the Oyranos related
projects and it had well defined goals that were fairly easy to achieve in
the allotted time frame. But it was also because the Amit worked hard on
getting it done right from the beginning.
The two Oyranos related projects, mentored by me, started partitial very
early and up to the last day many things in Oyranos itself where not
clear. So the two students also worked on defining and discussing module
APIs and protocols for the three new Oyranos device configuration modules.
This contributed very much to clearing of device related concepts in
Oyranos.
A very early start had the libraw and Sane modules from Yiannis Belias. He
discussed many issues on te Sane email list and found a way, on how to tag
colour relevance for Sane options. Still we have to prepare a patch to get
this functionality included in Sane. After that it sould get ready to use.
Joe Simon's CUPS module for Oyranos had many interessting ideas
implemented, but was due to a lack of time not finished. Anyway the
"cupsICCProfile" PPD attribute is now understood by this module in Oyranos
git. This allowes reading of CUPS server side root only accessible
configurations (PPDs).
To know a way on how to tag PPD attributes for their colour relevance
would be great. This would help to assign a local profile in Oyranos
to a printing device with user rights like with all other device backends.
The other part of Joe's OpenICC project the KolorManager CMS control panel
for KDE could in parts completely be substitited to rely on Oyranos for
obtaining device information, reading profile and storing custom ones.
All this Oyranos related projects are still work in progress and in a
pre-alpha state. Nevertheless this work helps much to advance in
understanding many details related to the Oyranos CMS.
And last but not least Yiannis and Joe showed interesst in continuing
their contributions to Oyranos and KM.
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
for the OpenICC GSoC 2009 team
--
Organiser for the OpenICC GSoC 2009 participation
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/GoogleSoC2009
PS: I am cc'ing OpenPrinting as Till expressed special interesst.
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