Conceptual questions
Florian Höch
lists+gnome-color-manager at hoech.org
Fri Jul 2 15:07:33 UTC 2010
Am 02.07.2010 16:56, schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On 2 July 2010 15:21, Florian Höch<lists+gnome-color-manager at hoech.org> wrote:
>> Personally I'd probably label the current "softproof" intent setting as
>> "print preview" or something along the line.
>
> Yes, good idea, I've done this in git master.
Nice!
>> And I think adding an option for BPC would indeed be a nice touch. Rather
>> than adding a checkbox or other additional control, just another intent
>> "Relative with black point compensation" could be added to the dropdown
>> lists.
>
> Do we every want to do relative /without/ BPC?
For proofing, without BPC is a must of course. But for image ->
arbitrary display/output space, defaulting to BPC "on" for relative
colorimetric seems to be the right choice (and will surely avoid some
"why are my blacks crushed" cries from users :)).
>> Some wild thinking: Users can already choose their preferred
>> applications for different filetypes/tasks. Maybe in the future, users can
>> choose the preferred calibration solution in a similar way?
>
> Sure, GcmCalibrate is superclassed by GcmCalibrateArgll and
> GcmCalibrateManual, and it would be pretty easy to make that pluggable
> using GIO extension points. One for the future perhaps.
Cool. I agree it's still a bit early.
> Richard.
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