[argyllcms] Re: CC Profiles In X Specification and dispwin

On Jan 12, 2008 10:58 AM, Lars Tore Gustavsen <lars.tore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yesterday, I was a little exited when I discovered that ubuntu have
> the xicc tool in the univers repository. It loads a color profile
> according to the ICC Profiles In X Specification
> http://www.burtonini.com/computing/x-icc-profiles-spec-0.2.html
>
> The result was that the default image viewer on the same distribution,
> eye of gnome (eog) catch this profile and shows at least jpg images
> colormanged. There are now a lot of tools that use this specification
> like gimp,ufraw and I have heard that next firefox also will support
> this.
>
> I have no idea of the situation on other linux distributions, but I
> suggest that the linux section of Scenarios.html is updated with a
> line about also loading the color profile this way. It is also
> important to do the dispwin step since Ross Burton's  xicc utility
> don't load the clut.  It's just nice to be prepared, since this year
> will be the linux in the colormanagement history, according to my
> crystal ball :-)
>
> Another suggestion may of course be that dispwin is patched to also
> load this X11 atom. I don't think it to much work  since Ross Burton's
>  xicc.c is only 34 lines long.
> http://burtonini.com/computing/xicc-0.2.tar.gz
>
> I also wonder if  someone know a way to check, if or what icc profile
> are loaded with xicc?

xprop -root | grep _ICC_PROFILE

But you won't know which profile is set because it is the data from
the profile which is set as an X atom, so any application can load it
without any need to access the profile file.

Currently, applications supporting Ross XICC specification are :
-eog (I fixed it last week)
-gimp 2.4
-ufraw 0.13 and later
-inkscape (but only in SVN atm)
-f-spot (only partially, it only uses the profile when opening color
dialog. I need to either fix it or fill a bug upstream)

I have plans to integrate the xicc and LUT calibration data loading
into GNOME directly (into gnome-settings-daemon).

-- 
Frederic Crozat

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