[Digikam-users] Color correction

[Wolfgang Mader]

On Wednesday 11 September 2013 18:18:37 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> I just take a look if a Linux Application already support CM with
> multi-screens.
> 
> - Scribus : no
> - Gimp : no
> - Krita : no

If not Krita than I would guess non of the Calligra Office members. Other 
graphic tools coming to mind

- Inkscape
- Blender

> 
> anything else ?
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2013/9/11 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> > In other, as i just bought a new opensource Colorimeter device for my
> > tux photo-station where i use 2 27' IPS flat screens, I will be
> > interrested to improve multi-screen support in digiKam Color
> > management settings.
> > 
> > http://www.hughski.com/index.html
> > 
> > Gilles Caulier
> > 
> > 2013/9/11 Wolfgang Mader <Wolfgang_Mader at brain-frog.de>:
> >> On Wednesday 11 September 2013 15:47:51 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >>> 2013/9/11 Benjamin Girault <benjamin.girault at gmail.com>:
> >>> > 2013/9/11 Wolfgang Mader <Wolfgang_Mader at brain-frog.de>:
> >>> >> On Wednesday 11 September 2013 15:00:45 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >>> >>> 2013/9/11 Wolfgang Mader <Wolfgang_Mader at brain-frog.de>:
> >>> >>> > On Wednesday 11 September 2013 12:01:50 you wrote:
> >>> >>> >> 2013/9/11 Wolfgang Mader <Wolfgang_Mader at brain-frog.de>:
> >>> >>> >> > Hi list,
> >>> >>> >> > 
> >>> >>> >> > since 4.10, I guess, KDE comes with integrated color
> >>> >>> >> > correction.
> >>> >>> >> 
> >>> >>> >> Ah ??? Where it is in KDE control center. Here i use KDE 4.10.5,
> >>> >>> >> and
> >>> >>> >> Display & Monitor settings has size/orientation + locker + gamma
> >>> >>> >> section.
> >>> >>> > 
> >>> >>> > I am on Arch Linux and had to install the package kolor-manager
> >>> >>> > separately.
> >>> >>> > Then you get a new icon on the top level of system settings called
> >>> >>> > "Color
> >>> >>> > Management" and a new box to tick in the "Desktop Effects" ->
> >>> >>> > Advanced
> >>> >>> > ->
> >>> >>> > Box(Enable Color Correction (Experimental)).
> >>> >>> > 
> >>> >>> > They use the oyranos framework
> >>> >>> > 
> >>> >>> > http://www.oyranos.org/kolormanager/
> >>> >>> 
> >>> >>> Sound like an extra package from your distro not a standard one
> >>> >>> distributed by KDE. Here (Mageia3), it do not exist...
> >>> >> 
> >>> >> Thanks anyway for yout time. Let's wait if or until this feature
> >>> >> enters
> >>> >> KDE
> >>> >> officially.
> >>> > 
> >>> > If you are using oyranos framework, then my intial answer is wrong,
> >>> > since this is different from colord. Oyranos has been available for
> >>> > quite a while now (contrary to colord which is recent), and I doubt it
> >>> > will be included in KDE SC. I have no idea also as to the interference
> >>> > with digiKam color correction.
> >>> 
> >>> digiKam use Lcms which will handle differently Color profiles than
> >>> Oyranos.
> >>> 
> >>> So, i suspect a big bazaar here...
> >> 
> >> If there is even a remote interest in adapting this kwin/oyranos based
> >> solution, I would volunteer to research if and when this can be expected
> >> to be included in kde by default. A tleast color correction for multiple
> >> different monitors is working there already.
> >> 
> >> I want to stress, that this would cut out digikam users which are not
> >> using
> >> kwin as their window manager, and this is s.th. we for sure do not want.
> >> Hence, a solution to this end would be needed.
> >> 
> >> Best,
> >> Wolfgang
> >> 
> >>> Gilles Caulier
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