[argyllcms] Re: stupid question
- From: "Hal V. Engel" <hvengel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:08:00 -0700
On Friday, October 22, 2010 04:40:44 pm Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 04:31 PM, Hal V. Engel wrote:
> > On Friday, October 22, 2010 01:03:36 pm Konstantin Svist wrote:
> >> So should it be pointed to the monitor profile? If so, then there's a
> >> problem with multi-monitor setup - each monitor has its own profile.
> >> Then it's better to leave it on sRGB?
> >
> > Yes Firefox has issues with multiple monitors since it is only possible
> > to configure it for one profile. Using sRgb is one option another is to
> > always use firefox on one monitor and set the correct profile in it's
> > settings.
> >
> > There is also a bugzilla entry for the multi-monitor issue.
> >
> > Hal
>
> So then the way it works is something like this?
> Firefox reads an image tagged as profile X, converts it to the profile
> it has in its settings (e.g. sRGB), then hands it off to the system,
> which converts sRGB to display profile.
No this step does not exist. Firefox expects that what is has for a display
profile setting is the device profile. It also assumes that if this is not set
that you want to use sRGB.
> If display profile is given to Firefox, the last step is NOOP since it's
> already using the right profile.
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