[Openicc] Print Color Pipeline

[Robert Krawitz]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:49:27 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 22 January 2011 17:03, Jan-Peter Homann <homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:
>> But lets come back to the color architecture.
>> The monitor profile itself will be configured on systemlevel (Oraynos, Gnome
>> ColorManager etc...).
>
> The monitor profile is actually per-session, as the X11 instance is
> not usable from the system layer. That said, a display configuration
> will typically per-system in reality, as we don't really want to
> switch display colorspaces when we do fast-user-switching, or back and
> forth to gdm and that kind of thing.

The monitor can change over the course of a session.  For example, at
home I might have my laptop plugged into one monitor, when I'm on the
train to work I use the LCD, and when I get to work I plug it into a
monitor there -- in each case, without logging out.