[Openicc] Linux CM ideology, was: meta data in test chart

[Graeme Gill]

Jon Cruz wrote:
> I know that in the past I've discussed this with X people (including Keith Packard) and
> had it explained that the place for color management the way we're looking at it was
> most likely not in the display server.

The popularity of wide gamut displays, and lots of applications that aren't going
to become color aware any time soon, may force other approaches. CompICC
is such an alternate approach. It gives the benefit of making all the
dumb applications think they are talking to a (say) sRGB display, while
smart, color aware applications can go outside that gamut. It also
has the advantage of using the GPU hardware to do the color space transformation.

The main problem with it, is that color aware applications that are not
CompICC aware, may stop working properly.

Graeme Gill.