[Openicc] CUPS Color Management under Linux gets into distros

[edmund ronald]

My perception is that Color on Linux is foobarred in a particularly
Linux way, with developers telling users that it's up to them to make
color settings app by app to get things working. As users understand
zilch about color - yes? - their chances to get the screen calibrated
(if it is not done thru EDID), get all their apps the right display
profile (if it is not done automagically), manage to calibrate a
printer using Argyll, and apply that profile in the apps, is close to
zero.

Forcing the screen to a known space eg.sRGB by eg. EDID calibration,
would at least take the developers out of the picture, and have users
roughly see the same color app to app and system to system in most
cases. I don't like it, but at this point I think it might be the
smartest model to adopt by default, with individual apps able to opt
out.  Read my lips - the developers of Linux apps don't understand the
importance of seamless color.

Edmund

> Seems to me we have an equivalent priority to get libraries that can created
> PDF spool files, as anything else on the list. Otherwise we're looking at an
> sRGB workflow across the board (which is not necessarily a bad first start
> but it would be depressing if it were left there).
>
> Chris Murphy
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