[Openicc] Color Management for Ubuntu

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 04.05.11, 22:26 +0100 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On 4 May 2011 20:00, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Compiz can basically be used in KDE and Gnome as a selectable compositing
>> and window manager.
>
> That's not so true with GNOME 3. You can either run mutter in the
> composited environment, or metacity in the fallback mode.

So it appears more difficult to get desktop colour correction inside Gnome 
3.

>> After the next Oyranos release I would like, among other projects, to
>> abstract out some of the plug-in functionality into libXcm. libXcm targets
>> at delivering some basic functionality and helpers for display colour
>> management. That should help KWin, mutter and other projects to easier
>> support the net-color spec.
>
> I don't think it would be that hard at all to add support to mutter
> for the net color spec, but as always, the devil is in the details. I
> added 3d texture support to cogl in the last 6 months, and now with
> GNOME 3 new enough clutter versions are starting to trickle into
> distros. Owen was receptive to adding the color stuff to mutter,
> although wasn't super keen on doing the work himself.

So you have already plans. Let me know if you have questions or need
details. I would be glad to help for Gnome.

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