[Openicc] What is exactly needed for color management in a distro?

[Richard Hughes]

On 31 May 2011 16:03, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
> That aproach appears very fragile regarding remote
> colour management among other problems. However, as demonstrated by its
> author Richard, it is quickly build together in the short run.

It's not fragile, it just doesn't work. By design.

Remote printers should get color correction profiles from remote
colord instances, not local ones. It's a world of pain to treat remote
printers as if they are local as you can't access the ppd-referenced
icc files and settings site-wide defaults is impossible.

> The Oyranos CMS ... does not try to penetrate the OS in a way...

I guess that's the main difference between Oyranos and colord. At
least from my point of view, Oyranos wants to be a stand-alone
project, and colord wants to be entangled in every framework of the
system as much as possible. Oyranos is thus portable to OSX and
Windows (which I think is useless, as ColorSync and WCS are already
native frameworks) and colord is restricted to Linux and the BSDs.

> ArgyllCMS, lcms2 and xcalib are really valuable colour management software
> and the first two certainly the base for Linux colour management.

Argyllcms is a runtime installed dep for gnome-color-manager, which it
uses PackageKit to do the dirty work. lcms2 is a hard build and run
time dep for colord, gnome-color-manager and lots of other desktop
software.

Richard.