[Openicc] Linux CM ideology .. Linux CM proposal

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 8, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Graeme Gill wrote:

> Richard Hughes wrote:
>> Least common denominator is not good enough. The session needs to
>> *query* things like "give me all the profiles for device $foo" and
>> "find all the devices that use profile $bar" which is why we should be
>> using a database, rather than searching discrete files on the
>> filesystem every time the session asks for data[1].
> 
> While that would be convenient, I'm not sure the quantity of information
> is really so large that it is an issue to do a linear search.
> How many profile can you imagine being installed on a system ?
> 10 ? 20 ? 100 ? More than 100 is a lot of profiles, because a lot
> of work needs to go into making each one of them!

The average Mac user probably has 10-20. A typical Adobe Photoshop user with one inkjet will have around 30 profiles. Anyone making custom profiles is probably automatically in the 100+ profile range.

Chris Murphy