Re: Color Calibration

[Manuel Amador <rudd-o amautacorp com>]

It seems not to work at all on dumb terminals.  I've just compiled and
tried to use it, and sliding the three sliders below the feet did
nothing.

I also cannot understand what the "target gamma" means =(

luck,

El lun, 23-08-2004 a las 04:49, Thomas Vander Stichele escribió:
> On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 23:12, Ken Harris wrote:
> > Every time themes are discussed, there are always N people who say
> > "Theme <x> sucks because it's way too (dark/light)".  I've always
> > suspected a large portion of this is simply because people don't set the
> > gamma correction on their displays to something reasonable -- but it's
> > hard to blame them, because setting up your display properly in
> > X11/Gnome isn't terribly easy, or even well-documented.
> 
> Good point - I also had my doubts about these objections on themes, but
> couldn't figure out what my problem with them was :)
> 
> 
> > So I've created a program that steps you through setting up your display
> > properly, setting the gamma correction, and maintaining multiple color
> > profiles.  It's similar to what the Displays control panel on a Mac
> > does, for example.
> > 
> > http://bitpoetry.com/programs/gnome-color-calibrator/
> 
> Trying this atm.  I only have a very passive knowledge about color
> calibration. I have a laptop, and I don't see an obvious way to adjust
> the contrast.  Does this mean I can't even use the calibrator, or that I
> should just proceed as if my contrast is set to maximum ?
> 
> In the next dialog, the sliders, I'd add up/down arrows as well for
> finetuning.  It seems to me that the point where the foots are supposed
> to be blending in are hard to get to.
> 
> Finally, after completing the steps, my whole desktop looks very
> different :) It'll take some time getting used to.  I might not feel
> I've done it correctly.  Luckily you create the None profile by default,
> which allows me to go back easily, earning you bonus points.
> 
> So, to sum up:
> - looks to me like you've done a good job at making this easy to follow
> without having to have the user know what he's doing behind the scenes
> - looks to me like a configuration dialog that helps people do the right
> thing for their visuals (where "the right thing" is decided by someone
> who knows his stuff and then translates it to a mechanism that can be
> followed by someone who doesn't) is always a good thing.  (I'm thinking
> about doing something similar for audio levels).
> - I think you should work on this some more and target it for 2.10.
> 
> Thanks
> Thomas
> 
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