[argyllcms] Re: Good software, but steep learning curve

>    * From: Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   * To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    * Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:35:34 +1100
>
> Lennart Aangeenbrug wrote:
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>   * is there a gui for linux :-P (or in progress?)
>
> It's not something I'm intending to work on myself (at least,
> not as a free software project), but other people have played with
> this. I can't point you in the right direction at the moment
> since I don't have the information handy, although such projects
> tend to concentrate on printer and/or scanner profiling tasks.
>
> If you're particularly interested in display profiling, then
> there is lprof (which incorporates a good deal of code from
> Argyll), but as far as I know, it doesn't currently do
> display calibration.

The last release did not support monitor calibration.  But current CVS is now 
using a slightly modified version of the Argyll meter support code (it is 
currently using beta 7 as a base) and does do monitor calibration and 
profiling using the measurements made using these devices and the Argyll 
meter code.  

At this point the calibration and profiling code is using somewhat simplistic 
algorithms and work is focused on getting the UI working in a way that is 
both powerfull and user friendly.  Once the UI is up to snuff work on the 
calibration and profiling algorithms to bring them up to the same standards 
as the scanner/camera profiling code will begin.  

If you want friendly you can use LProf CVS but for monitor calibration and 
profiling you will get somewhat better results from the Argyll display 
calibration and profiling apps at this time.   These can coexist on the same 
system and if anyone is interested in doing testing and providing feedback 
then please do so.  Also if there are any Windows users who are interested in 
doing LProf testing please let me know and I will make a windows binary 
install available.  For *.nix and OS/X users LProf is a fairly easy build.  
LProf will also build on Windows using MinGW and msys for those Windows users 
who are setup for this but this is more difficult than on a *nix platform.

Having looked at the posbility of putting a GUI front end directly on top of 
the Argyll monitor calibration and profiling apps I have to say that I think 
that it is not very likely that you will see this happen any time soon.   I 
can see why other projects that have done Argyll front ends have focused on 
scanner and printer profiling since these apps do not require a significant 
level of user interactivity unlike monitor calibration.

snip

Hal

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