[Openicc] colord information

[edmund ronald]

Yeah, I was trying to politely point out to Richard Hughes that the
users of a 44" Epson printer (I have one, actually) are going to look
like oddballs compared to the owners of $30 printers. And so, if one
chooses to support the big iron one should have one credible one big
iron use-case. Frankly, just to be really nasty, users of $30 printers
don't usually know sh*t about color profiles, Photoshop, or CMYK and
so if they are going to be our target in designing a color management
system for Linux, I suggest we wire everything to sRGB from the start
and get on with our lives.

Edmund

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:07:08 +0100, edmund ronald wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:33:22 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>>> On 11 February 2011 10:34, edmund ronald <edmundronald at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I like virtual users for interface design work, because they focus (or
>>>>> detour) the imagination in a way just staring at the screen cannot
>>>>> achieve.
>>>>
>>>> The problem with virtual users is that it's very easy to devise
>>>> oddball use cases that doesn't represent the majority, or that you can
>>>> easily test with. This leads to feature creep.
>>>>
>>>> I think feature creep is a *huge* problem in open source software.
>>>
>>> No argument there, but this kind of thing is also what pushes the
>>> envelope with new capabilities.
>>
>> Ok, I have an idea, Robert, from now on we drop support for any
>> printer that costs more than $500 from Gutenprint, because clearly
>> these printers are used by less than 1% of consumers, and also they
>> are well served by commercial software. And we also drop support for
>> any gamut that is outside sRGB as 99% of all imagery is sRGB by
>> default.
>
> I've actually had seriously-intended suggestions that amount to that.
> I ignore them.
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