[Openicc] CUPS Color Management under Linux gets into distros

[Peter Linnell]

On 02/08/2011 11:25 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 10:17 PM, Peter Linnell wrote:
>> Hi Till,
>>
>> This is terrific news and let's hope this get's into other distros soon.
>>
>> Just two comments:
>>
>> 1. Path pollution - most of the color aware apps honor
>> http://www.oyranos.com/wiki/index.php?title=OpenIccDirectoryProposal for
>> storing ICC profiles. Can we avoid adding another path ?
>>
> 
> Please report this to CUPS upstream on
> 
> http://www.cups.org/str.php
> 
> I got CUPS searching /usr/share/ppd/, /usr/local/share/ppd/, and
> /opt/share/ppd/ for PPDs. Why should you not get Mike Sweet making CUPS
> searching for ICC profiles in /usr/share/color/ etc.?
> 
>> 2. For those not at the Printing Summit, follow on discussion could also
>> occur at LGM http://libregraphicsmeeting.org in mid May in Monrteal. We
>> are focusing this year more on development issues and I am aiming to
>> have some workshops/talks on color management as well. Of course all the
>> list members would be welcome to join, as well. There is no registration
>> fee and lodging is reasonable. Scribus, GIMP, Krita, Oryanos and
>> Inkscape will be there, as they are some of the principal users of color
>> management in OSS.
> 
> Thanks for the info. I will not be there, but many people of the apps
> from which one wants to print color-managed.
> 
>    Till

Hi Till,

STR #3793

Peter