[Digikam-users] LCD for photos

[Arnd Baecker]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Paul Waldo wrote:

> Does this really work?  I have never tried it because I figured that
> there would be too many differences from one OS to the next.  Say you
> get the ICC profile under Windows.  You now boot Linux and try to use
> that profile.  The way an image is displayed could be very different.
> You are using video drivers that probably are made for a different OS
> and may not even be from the video card's manufacturer.  Additionally,
> the differing drivers may have different default parameters for display
> properties.
>
> As I said, I have never tried this method.  If anyone has had good luck,
> I'd love to hear about it! :-)

It seems people use it (I haven't ...), see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_color_management

Another option is to hope for the spyder hack,
http://yan-ke.com/spyder/, to succeed in providing
linux support.

Best, Arnd