Re: Conceptual questions

[Florian Höch <lists+gnome-color-manager hoech org>]

Am 02.07.2010 16:56, schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On 2 July 2010 15:21, Florian Höch<lists+gnome-color-manager 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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