(Leonard, I am cc'ing you directly, as you recently indicated not receiving list messages) On Saturday 20 December 2008, Leonard Evens wrote: > xprop -root shows that _ICC_PROFILE has been set. Also, both gimp and > inkscape make use of it. But the versions I have of eog (under Fedora and > Ubuntu) don't appear to do so. But it would be nice to be sure about > that. I presume that any application which does make use of it will > mention that fact, in its preference settings or elsewhere. That is why > I would like to see some further explanation of how it is supposed to work > under eog. I don't know about preference settings, but I do know how you can verify at least if eog has been compiled with lcms support or not. That would save you the trouble to recompile. There is a linux command ldd, which will show all libraries a given program is linked to. On my Fedora 10 box, ldd /usr/bin/eog will return a long list of libraries. The relevant line is this: liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0x02f4c000) Which indicates that eog is compiled with lcms support. Of course this doesn't mean eog really does something with the library. It only means recompilation probably wouldn't change anything. I am only following this thread in the background, but is Milan Knízek's suggestion not an explanation for eog's behaviour ? > BTW. EoG has a bug that it behaves as CM-aware app only for images with > embedded profiles or "Exif:ColorSpace" equal to "1" (in JPEGs). See bug > #554498 in bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554498 > while it should assume that images without a profile are in sRGB or let > the user decide on that. Regards, Geert -- Kobalt W.I.T. Web & Information Technology Brusselsesteenweg 152 1850 Grimbergen Tel : +32 479 339 655 Email: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx