[Openicc] Linux CM ideology .. Linux CM proposal

[Graeme Gill]

Chris Murphy wrote:
> As for cross platform support ICM and ColorSync provide these capabilities, seems like
> versions of this idea we're talking about for those platforms can just inquire with
> ColorSync instead of having to invent a solution for that platform. Since profiles can
> be kept anywhere in the filesystem, there's no consistent location you can depend on
> searching to find all available profiles. You'd have to inquire with ColorSync anyway.

Sure, but the point is exactly to create a Unix like equivalent to the basic service
that ColorSync provides - finding a profile for a given device. And it would
be nice to do it in a way that covers any non MSWin, non OS X operating system,
so that things like Linux, Android and anything else anyone creates is covered.

> For ICM, it may be possible to avoid using such a service because I think all profiles
> are always kept in a single directory and alternates aren't even possible.

I suspect that WCS is a bit more sophisticated than that.

Graeme Gill.