[Openicc] Communication between Printer Driver and Oyranos

[Richard Hughes]

On 24 January 2011 11:00, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Exactly that was questioned multiple times in the previous threads by
> various experts.

Sure, but I've already clarified that the qualifier is free text, not
limited to the dotted notation which you have to use with ColorSync.
As soon as you have two or more qualifiers per profile, one orthogonal
to the others, this becomes impossible to put into a sane GUI or for
real users to develop a mental map of the settings.

> Agreed. OpenICC people have done this some years ago. The page is here:
> http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=What_the_users_want

For some definition of users. Any interaction designer will tell you
that users don't typically belong in distinct groups. For instance, I
would consider myself a photographer, and a designer when taking
photos and editing them in darktable. And then I'm a web user when I
upload the finished result to flikr.

Most good interaction design books describe this much better than I can.

>> With colord, I'm aiming to solve 100% of the problem for 95% of users.
>
> Reads like pure marketing.

Or a goal. Whichever.

Richard.