[Openicc] gnome-color-manager and argyllcms

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Sorry for this cross posting.
My post is more about terminology, then about the primary technical 
intention of Richards initial post. So I would be fine to continue on 
OpenICC.

Am 30.10.09, 09:35 -0000 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> I'm the maintainer of gnome-color-manager. gcm uses argyllcms to do
> the device calibration, but gcm runs in the user session and does not
> have access to hardware devices without a manual chmod.

Hello Hughes,

It seems like you are programming a gnome-monitor-calibration and a 
gnome-monitor-profiling UI. Booth in the same application. As pointed 
out on your blog comments[1] there exist already some of them[2]. So you 
might get ideas from other UI's and can keep an eye on terminology,
for the sake of the tutorial and book writers. They have later to 
demystify the Linux Colour puzzle and explain it to end users.

Further some thoughts about the selected name.
A gnome-color-manager can suggest everything from a CMM like Argyll's 
colour transformation engine[3] to a complete CMS, like WCS[4]. With the 
strong reference to "Gnome" in the name, I thought more of a configuration 
panel[5][6].

As a hint, it might be a good idea to distinguish between both kind of 
applications. There might be people who want to use alternatives for one 
of the steps. If calibration/profiling and settings of profile are too 
close, that might be too inflexible.


Btw. I would really like to test your application, but I am afraid 
smearing my system with cutting edge Gnome libs will result in unuseable 
other apps as I experienced it already. (Firefox was unuseable for months 
here until I discovered that uninstalling a newer glib version solved that 
problem. So no modern Inkscape eigther here.)


[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/10/23/icc-profiles-and-gnome/
[2] http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=ColourMatchingModuls#Profiler
[3] http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=ColourMatchingModuls
[4] http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Applications#CMS.27s
[5] http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Oyranos#Screenshots
[6] http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Kolor-manager


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