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["Frédéric Crozat" <fred@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 17, 2008 1:05 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Frédéric Crozat wrote:
>
> > However, it doesn't possible to load into LUT table from an .icc/.icm
> > file and set  _ICC_PROFILE atom using a single dispwin call. That
> > would be nice to have.
>
> It didn't seem like something someone would need to do:
>
> You set the _ICC_PROFILE atom after creating a profile.
> That happens occasionally. You've probably already loaded
> the calibration on your screen in order to evaluate it
> before deciding to overwrite the _ICC_PROFILE atom.
>
> You set the display to the _ICC_PROFILE atom every
> time you start the system (or even more often).
>
> Besides, the UNIX philosophy is to make one tool per task,
> and then combine them, and it complicates the specification
> and interpretation of the specification to try and combine
> these two tasks in dispwin, without changing its operation
> in an incompatible way.

Well, if you were strictly following this philisophy, dispwin wouldn't
do both loading LUT table
and setting _ICC_PROFILE ;)

Before beta8, at each startup, we had to do :
dispwin profile.icc
xicc profile.icc

now, we still need to do 2 calls :
dispwin profile.icc
dispwin -S profile.icc

IMO, it would have been better to merge both calls, but since you
disagree, I won't try to change your mind.

-- 
Frederic Crozat