Re: Progress so far

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

*after reading the whole thread*

Color managed Cairo will make things A LOT easier for many graphics
related applications.

TOP3 list: GIMP, Inkscape, sK1

Alexandre

On 1/14/10, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> So, not a lot of activity in gnome-color-manager repos in the last few
> days. Let me explain why:
>
> * There's no point writing a tiny library to color manage pixbuf's, it
> belongs in the GDK/GTK layer
> * We can't depend on lcms in GTK as we'll want other things on Windows7 and
> OSX.
> * Nobody wanted to open the can of worms
>
> So, for the last few evenings, I've written a mega-patch
> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606885) that adds in
> GtkColorProfile, GtkColorTransform and GtkColorEngine objects to GTK,
> and quite a bit of the interface code that makes all that possible.
> There are many more changes to be made, but when this patch is
> committed we can easily make a GtkImage that is color corrected, and
> not have to worry about doing it in the application. In essence,
> applications become color managed for free, and have to manually
> opt-out of having pixbufs transformed by embedded profiles. This makes
> things _much_ simpler.
>
> The lcms bits are written as a GIO extension point, and it falls back
> to a NOP or memcpy if lcms is not available. I've hopefully designed
> the API to be efficient and easy to use (and portable to other
> systems). The patch still needs a lot more upstream review, but I
> wanted to keep you guys in the loop.
>
> When this is complete, we can move onto GtkImage and start doing more
> useful things. Needless to say, this will make GcmImage obsolete.
>
> Richard.
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Alexandre