From kde-core-devel Wed Feb 22 17:38:13 2012 From: Daniel Nicoletti Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:38:13 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Color Managing KDE Message-Id: <1329932293.58547.YahooMailNeo () web114203 ! mail ! gq1 ! yahoo ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=132993501319617 =A0>It's not a situation I understand or want, but the reality is we now ha= ve two competing colour management systems which are shipping in distro's. = It's a situation I'll have to learn more about later from a Qt printing con= text, but for now rather than debate the rights and wrongs we need to think= about supporting KDE users on Fedora, Red Hat, and any other distros that = choose colord over oyranos.=A0=0A>All that is needed here right now, and al= l I believe Richard is asking help for, is for a KCM to configure colord. K= DE is a community know for it's pragmatism and I think we need to be pragma= tic here as it is not diverting significant resources or making deep change= s, or expressing support for one or other solution.=A0=0A>I believe Alex Fi= estas has expressed an interest in the past in developing a KCM so he might= be a good starting point.=0A=0ASure, I think debating which solution is be= st won't take to any place, take init systems=0Afor example, ubuntu has ups= tart, fedora has systemd, other ones legacy init though=0Amost of them lack= configuration though KDE.=0A=0AI've been working with Richard since I star= ted KPackageKit so we tend to understand each other,=0AI'll probably be hel= ping him with this, last time I spoke with Alex he was also unsure about th= is matter,=0Abut if he changes it's mind would be more than welcome :)=0A= =0AAbout colord not doing color correction it is true, it doesn't it's more= like=0Aa daemon that just sits there are provide color profiles, the app n= eeds to=0Ado the color correction, and here IMO it has a huge advantage, be= cause=0Athe toolkit/framework can decide which is best for it, giving freed= om to apps,=0Aeven it they prefer to turn this off. Since depending on the = application=0Ayou will not care to have the right color (imagine a terminal= app...)=0A=0AAs Richard said Oyranos is doing all=A0this by it self on the= CPU so it=0Awould act like a proxy between your application,=0Aand the win= dow manager which sounds like killing performance.=0A( I might have=A0misun= derstood=A0but I can't see any other way of doing this)=0A=0AAnyways I don'= t intend to increase the flames here just to point out=0Athat I'm going to = start on this, I don't have much time so if some new comers=0Aare wiling fo= r a from scratch job be welcome :D=0A=0A________________________________=0A= Daniel Nicoletti - KDE Developer=0Ahttp://dantti.wordpress.com=0AWhen a wic= ked man dies, his hope perishes;=0Aall he expected from his power comes to = nothing. Prov. 11:7=0A