Re: Color Calibration

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

I'm torn.  The problem is that a normal user would not know anything
about gamma correction (unless they are gamers) and it would not be
appropriate to put that in the control center.  But there are some good
use cases where you might want this.  Perhaps, a11y/colour blindness
that type of thing might find it useful.

One thing we could do is find a way to make this into a gconf preference
when it comes to the desktop and then perhaps optionally a gui could be
made along the lines of guitweaker utility (or maybe a part of that)

I dont't think it could get into the control panel which is already has
grown large.  However, thats the community call.  In any case, we'll
have to wait for the 2.10 cycle to decide whether it's in or not.

sri

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 14:12 -0700, Ken Harris wrote:
> Every time themes are discussed, there are always N people who say
> "Theme <x> sucks because it's way too (dark/light)".  I've always
> suspected a large portion of this is simply because people don't set the
> gamma correction on their displays to something reasonable -- but it's
> hard to blame them, because setting up your display properly in
> X11/Gnome isn't terribly easy, or even well-documented.
> 
> So I've created a program that steps you through setting up your display
> properly, setting the gamma correction, and maintaining multiple color
> profiles.  It's similar to what the Displays control panel on a Mac
> does, for example.
> 
> http://bitpoetry.com/programs/gnome-color-calibrator/
> 
> It's a standalone Python program right now, but I designed it to look
> and act like a control-center preferences window.  I'd love to see this
> (or something similar) be part of Gnome.  If other people thought it was
> useful, I could do some legwork to get it into gnome-control-center. 
> (But I don't know what would need to be done -- port it to C?)
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> (This seemed to be the most appropriate mailing list.  If this is the
> wrong place, just let me know and I'll take it elsewhere.  Thanks.)
> 
> 
> - Ken
> 
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