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

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 29.01.11, 09:16 +1000 schrieb Jon Cruz:
> On Jan 29, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> It
>>> also meant the applications themselves didn't need to know what output
>>> they were on, and things like that.
>>
>> I think this is important. It makes it much more complicated for smart apps to be smart if they have to track where pixels are being output so they know how to color manage them. Better to allow them to just send tagged pixels and let a window manager deal with where, what, how.
>
> In talking with Keith Packard (while other X members were also present), it was stated that they would not be adding beyond what is already present in X in regards to color management.

In that context the net-color spec and libXcm make even more sense to make 
colour management happen on the desktop.


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
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