[argyllcms] Re: another X error

On Sunday 13 August 2006 16:19, Graeme Gill wrote:

> What I want is a way of detecting whether TwinView or MergeFB is
> running, to handle the situation more elegantly.

Yes, I agree.

> > And as I said before, the common LUT for both screen is this is not a
> > problem for me.
>
> It may not be, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to fool people in
> general into believing that calibration is working for each screen,
> when in fact it is not. The conclusion to all this might be simply
> to say that "if you want to run color managed screens under X11,
> don't use TwinView or MergeFB".

Well, color calibration is a bit tricky; I think people using Argyll are 
prudent, and these kind of restriction should not be a problem. More and 
more people are using dual-screen config, and as ATI/NVidia are the last 
video cards manufacturers, MergedFB/TwinView configs will be more and more 
common.

Opposite to GUI-tools, people using command-line tools must read carefully 
the manual; if the restriction above is clearly defined, this is not a 
problem. I'm amazed of all people thinking that their screen is correctly 
calibrated, because they used tools like Colorvision, where you have a 
nice wizard. But then, you discover that they are using the wrong 
colorspace in Photoshop, or they have more than one color engine running!

One more thing: I don't think that X is now able to dynamically tell to 
running applications what profile they have to use, depending on what 
screen these applications are displayed. So, even if you have a LUT loaded 
for each screen, this is not enough. Am I wrong?

-- 
   Frédéric

   http://www.gbiloba.org

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