OpenPrinting Summit - Print Dialog and Colour Management

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 17 March 2011 Mar, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Am 17.03.11, 07:29 +0100 schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
> > On Thursday 17 March 2011 Mar, Christoph Feck wrote:
> >>> Also on the agenda is integrated end-to-end Colour Management possibly
> >>> using colord [4], something I know absolutly nothing about, so any
> >>> feedback or suggestions people have on that will be very welcome.  For
> >>> starters the dependencies for colord are glib and policykit.
> >>
> >> Kai-Uwe Behrmann (maintainer of KDE color management applications) can
> >> help you here. Grab him on http://www.oyranos.org/ and make sure he attends
> >> the meeting ;)
> >>
> >
> > Well... Kai-Uwe and Richard Hughes have had huge discussions on colord 
> > on the openicc mailing list 
> > (http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openicc) -- too huge for 
> > me to follow them. This list might be a good starting place for more 
> > info. For what I got out of it, colord seems to be, like so many 
> > "generic" libraries be focussed on gnome/gtk-first, while oyranos 
> > (Kai-Uwe's system) is burdened by using a config system that nobody 
> > packages. But that impression might be outdated and is certainly 
> > over-simplified.
> 
> Agreed, the discussion threads are very long. But we are about to extract 
> important ideas[1][2] and turn them into proposals[3].

That's so cool!

> Oyranos ships with the needed configuration code inside its source tree 
> since the last release at begin of this year.

Great!

> The library comes with a CUPS module for printing, and further SANE (which 
> needs patches), Xorg, Quarz monitor and CameraRAW modules.
> What would be cool to have are a Quarz module for printing and make the 
> library fit for Windows' WCS.


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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org