[Openicc] Communication between Printer Driver and Oyranos

[Richard Hughes]

On 23 January 2011 20:46, Jan-Peter Homann <homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:
> PS: it would be also interesting for me to hear, what people form the Gnome
> colormanager community would think about this workflow idea.

To be honest, I think the qualifier idea of ColorSync (with the same
idea in colord) works well enough for all but the true-professional
use case.

I've uploaded an architecture diagram of colord and
gnome-color-manager here:
http://gitorious.org/colord/master/blobs/raw/master/doc/architecture-plan.svg

I think this shows how the session can override the system default
profiles for certain qualifiers, and how I think the 40,000ft view of
a color architecture should work by default on a Linux desktop.

I think it makes a lot of sense to talk about target groups of user
and what high level interactions they *want* to have with a CMS, and
from real research, the number of people that actually know what a CMS
is, how it works, and actually want anything else than "make the
printer look right" is a tiny, tiny fraction of the desktop userbase.

As soon as we ask the user what dithering algorithm they want to use,
or if the paper has FWA added, we've failed.

With colord, I'm aiming to solve 100% of the problem for 95% of users.
The other 5% already know what they are doing and don't need DBus
interfaces and shiny GUIs to configure things.

Richard.