Re: Color management in ubuntu

[Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn pcode nl>]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> On 1 July 2010 17:42, Marek Matulka <marek matulka gmail com> wrote:
>> That would be awesome!
>
> I've been experimenting with GLSL shaders, and doing the color
> conversion in hardware on the GPU. We've hit a few stumbing blocks in
> clutter, but I'm adding API to clutter where required. Using the
> hardware allows us to do lots of clever interpolation in 3D to make
> things super sweet. Without using GPU hardware it's quite hard to
> process high-def video at normal frame rates.

And you need to make the applications aware that they do not need to
do their own color management... Otherwise apps like the GIMP might
apply an output profile themselves, having the display rgb processed
again by the GLSL shaders.

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn