Review Request: include KolorManager in kdegraphics

[Thomas Zander]

On Wednesday 14 March 2012 18.12.13 Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Am 14.03.12, 17:46 +0100 schrieb Thomas Zander:
> > On Wednesday 14 March 2012 16.39.00 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> >>> Colord - just to mention that - is also not a GNOME project, it's a
> >>> FreeDesktop project. (Doesn't mean it's "standard", but does mean that
> >>> it's not GNOME)
> >> 
> >> Well, no, having something on freedesktop.org doesn't mean it's not a
> >> gnome project;
> > 
> > Little semantic confusion here :)
> > He said it *IS*  a freedesktop project.  Which means it is not a gnome
> > project, which seems to me to be true.
> 
> It was developed specifically for Gnome Color Manager and then turned into
> a Glib depending library. So it bears all the specifics in it's concept.

Notice I still maintain that we should judge a solution on merit, not on who 
pushes it.

> > That said; Cups also depends on colord. And IMO that has a bigger impact
> > than the gnome components that pull it in.
> 
> colord print CM:
> CUPS does not depend in any way on colord. 

This opinion seems to conflict with the facts stated by others.  Debian for 
instance has 'rec' (recommend) colord for cups.[1]
Notice that colord allows components to use it without linking it in at 
startup using the dbus interface for instance.

> But colord depends on CUPS to
> support it's concept of placing colord's session centric configuration
> into each job on server side.

Which makes total technical sense. No color management system will work 100% 
without support in the individual components.  If Cups needs to be patched to 
support a new feature, that sounds sane to me.
Does it not make more sense to have color management support in cups than cups 
support in the color management software? It certainly does to me :)

> It does not scale well and will likely be difficult to maintain. 
As someone that is also a software developer, I disagree, with the reasons I 
wrote above. :-)

Bottom line for me really is that a project that has been around for a year 
has managed to grow fast and get accepted widely.
Some may argue thats because of political issues, but in the end thats not 
really relevant. The end result is still 'market' acceptance. 

As mentioned before, accepting kolormanager in kdegraphics is kind of a "no" 
to colord. And I think thats would be cutting our own fingers.


1) http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/cups
-- 
Thomas Zander