Gnome Color Management

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Hello,

(I hope this is the right place to start this discussion.)

From what I can tell, X contain support for color management and device 
(display) color profiles just as Windows and MacOS does. The support is 
called Xcms (X Color Management System). There is some documentation 
here http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/manindex3.html: Xcms, Xcolor...

Although Xcms seem to have existed for years, there seem to be no 
applications that support creating, converting, or profiling of ICC 
profiles under Linux.

I think that Gnome ought to provide tools to use ICC profiles and to 
support simple profiling (like Adobe Gamma - see attachment). This would 
reduce one of the barriers professional users have against switching to 
Linux and Gnome.

KDE support gamma adjustments, but that is in my oppinion not enough. 
the KDE tool doesn't have any references to what you adjust your gamma 
to. It only acts like a brightness control.

I feel that there are many issues around Color that many people do not 
understand. So please before this proposal is dismissed, lets discuss it 
further. Color is advanced and not at all what most people believe.

Sincerely,
~S