GSoC CM collaboration

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Mar 3 09:18:59 PST 2008


Le Lun 3 mars 2008 18:01, Olivier Galibert a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:49:20PM +0100, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
>> IMO it boils down, whether it makes sense to keep the CMS impact on
>> the
>> application side minimal, or accept that a application has to call a
>> CMS
>> in order to do any colour management.
>
> Where "the application" can mean in large part "the graphics toolkit",
> as in gtk, qt or even cairo.  So it's not necessarily that numerous.

That would mean configuration hell. Please don't go there. Most users
will want every GUI app colour-managed if possible, so I don't see any
win is pushing this in the toolkits now. This is a receipe for a
painful convergence process later on.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot



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