[Openicc] Helping with colord

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 09.03.11, 12:30 +1100 schrieb Graeme Gill:
> Alexandre P. wrote:
>> Back when we started OpenICC, the idea was to agree on concepts, work
>> out common solutions and then bloody well get things done. I love the
>> fact that we have best experts in CM here, as well as both proprietary
>> and free software developers and hardware vendor engineers. I love the
>> fact that I learnt tons of stuff. But it's been, how many -- four?
>> five? -- years since then, and the question I'm asking is: are we
>> getting things done?
>
> Apparently not a lot. But there has to be some willingness to work
> towards common goals, and take into consideration others legitimate
> requirements. While Richard Hughes has made admirable progress with
> GCM, he's not shown a lot of willingness so far to compromise
> the "get my project working in the most efficient GNOME/Red Hat way 
> possible",
> in order to actually establish some basic system color management
> standards, such as how profile & device associations are stored.
>
> I'm certainly willing to make ArgyllCMS work with a standard that
> can be agreed by the various interested parties, and I get the impression
> that Kai-Uwe might be willing to change Oyranos to work with a standard,
> but I'm not getting the impression at the moment that Richard is willing.
>
> If we could get that at least done (including sample code), then we could
> start arguing about what's stored in it, and after that there may even be
> scope to specify a system CMM api or even implement it based on 
> Oyranos/GCM/lcms2/Ghostscript code!

It appears a good route to me.

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