[Openicc] colord information

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 13.02.11, 04:24 +0100 schrieb edmund ronald:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:39:56 +1100, Graeme Gill wrote:
>>> Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>>> Edmund's point still stands: what is the definition of "normal
>>>> people"?  Folks who just want to print snapshots downloaded from their
>>>> phone, or something more sophisticated?  I think a lot of developers
>>>> underestimate what users want to do.
>>>
>>> I think it's a mistake to target something like Linux printing
>>> at a single idea of a user. There is no single user, there is
>>> a huge range of users. Instead the systems should aim to make
>>> simple things easy, and complicated things possible. This
>>> translates to a graduated set of facilities.
>>
>> A former colleague of used the phrase "successive disclosure of
>> complexity" to describe this, and I think it's a good principle.
>> Despite its reputation, we do want to make Gutenprint easy to use for
>> inexperienced users, but not to give up capability for power users.
>>
>> Having simple PPD files with bundled settings will certainly help
>> here.
>>

> Hehe, paradoxically the canned-profile color-managed settings are
> actually the ones which would be locked down most strongly -or else
> the profile is useless.

It reads like polarising between naive/inexperienced users and 
experienced/expert users. Exactly that is strongly criticised on other 
platforms, but seems to meet deaf ears right now.

> So people printing with a profile should not need to see much of the
> driver settings apart from the media-type selection.

Thats the goal for Oyranos, perhaps more flexible and robust.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org