[RFC wayland-protocols] Color management protocol

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:18:21 +1100
Graeme Gill <graeme2 at argyllcms.com> wrote:

> 2) Expecting color management applications to deal with
>    configuring the compositor in a platform dependent
>    way, is expecting far too much. I for one am not
>    about to add multiple platform dependent back
>    ends (multiple flavors of Linux, BSD's, Android,
>    etc.) to my tools to do this, and no other major
>    platform expects it (i.e. none of MSWindows, OS X
>    or X11 based systems have this requirement.)

Indeed.

Applications have no right to be configuring *anything* in a desktop
compositor.

Configuring the compositor is an action with global effects, and
therefore must be privileged. It is usually reserved for the desktop
environment's configuration utilities that the user will be using
manually.


Thanks,
pq
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