[Openicc] CUPS Color Management under Linux gets into distros

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 05 March 2011, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Am 05.03.11, 08:54 -0800 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
> > On Friday, March 04, 2011 06:37:40 PM Chris Murphy wrote:
> >> Better than nothing, but why should the user have to set things up to get
> >> sensible results? It seems like it's the nonsensical results that should
> >> require intervention to obtain.
> >>
> >>
> >> Chris Murphy
> >
> > Currently digiKam is opt in.  So users have to turn CM on and set things like
> > the display profile.   This is an artifact of the digiKam team doing the CM
> > work before we had things like ICC_PROFILE X11 atoms.  At this point most
> > systems still don't have this atom set.  In general I agree that basic CM
> > should just work without user intervention but this requires that systems have
> > utilities installed for setting up display profiles including setting the X11
> > ICC_PROFILE atom.   Most systems currently don't have this stuff installed and
> > many distros don't even have packages so that users can install these without
> > having to resort to building these from source.
> 
> I remember lcms was at some time not part of distributions. Then came some 
> applications, which required it and packagers wanted those applications to 
> ship. The same might happen for lcms2, if application developer or users 
> do not care, then packagers have typical no idea about the one or other 
> library. If things are optional in the stack, they are at risc to get 
> ignored.

For the next release of Krita lcms2 will be the preferred version, and we might even drop lcms1 support.

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org