[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 347114] digiKam doesn't let me change the monitor color profile

[DrSlony]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347114

--- Comment #36 from DrSlony <bugs at londonlight.org> ---
The display calibration and the monitor profile are two separate things, but to
have accurate colors the monitor profile must be used with the same calibration
it was made under, if any.
dispwin -c loads a linear display calibration which is what I need for one
profile on one monitor, and dispwin -L loads a calibration which I use for
another profile on another monitor. It's nice that digiKam tries to be
automatic, but the result is this mess where it doesn't let the user manually
override the used profile just because some X atom is set.

All I need to do is run that one simple command in a terminal to switch which
monitor colors should be accurate on. I don't need any oyranos or colord which
have their own set of problems and limitations on KDE4 and don't even work on
Plasma 5. I get accurate colors by simply loading (or unloading) the
calibration as needed and then pointing each program to the monitor profile.
Each program, except digiKam.

It's nice that a motorcycle has a button to turn the engine on, but sometimes
you need a good old kickstart. I'm not asking you to add complicated things to
the program, I'm asking you to make a simple manual override. It's 2015 and
still the only reliable way I can set color management accurately and with
certainty across all relevant programs is by doing it manually. Keep the
"Monitor Profile From System Settings" option for people whom that satisfies,
but add a QFileDialog. It's simple, it's not complicated, it's a fail-safe.

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