[Openicc] printer, driver, CUPS, PPD, printing GUI, ICC-profiles, colord, Oyranos, taxi....

[Richard Hughes]

On 13 January 2012 16:09, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
> This hook has no advantage for other CMSs

Of course, it wasn't designed for other CMSs.

> Work on a truly shareable access to colour settings was outlined in previous threads here on list.
> IMO the best is to remove this hook ASAP.

I'm not interested about discussing every nuance of a perfect
theoretical system. A CMS is not a black box you can replace as a unit
with standardised interfaces and standardized configuration, just like
you can't do that with an X server, database or even kernel. A CMS is
just _functionality_ -- users don't care how it works, the beautiful
architecture or the fact it can be replaced by something else. 99.999%
of computer users don't know what a CMS is -- and that's a totally
good thing.

My focus is making color management "just work". This is why colord is
installed on millions of computers, and why people can already click
the mouse a few times and have a color corrected scanner, display and
printer without needing to manually configure anything. It's not
perfect at all, but it's good enough for 95% of real users, and we can
slowly work on new ways to increase that number every day.