Re: Gnome Color Management

[Sam Morris <sam robots org uk>]

Spam wrote:
>  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.

Have you see Gnome Color Calibrator? Its homepage is at 
<http://bitpoetry.com/programs/gnome-color-calibrator/>.

It is quite easy to use, although it doesn't do any ICC stuff and after 
calibrating my monitor the colours on the screen looked, well, really 
bad. :)

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