Re: Installing display profiles/interfacing with gcm

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On 16 June 2010 13:00, Florian Höch <lists+gnome-color-manager hoech org> wrote:
> Hmm, sounds like I'll probably want to avoid it, then ;) Maybe as a "last
> resort".

Right. The lack of locking makes this a quick fix, but probably not a good idea.

> Ah, ok. So then all the naming information is available through the EDID?

Right.

> Agreed on your points. I think the format of the config file is fine,
> although addition of the EDID hash key sounds like a nice idea.

commit d22f9c2a567eef04a72cabf1125fe02c3d79efb1
Author: Richard Hughes <richard hughsie com>
Date:   Wed Jun 16 15:04:38 2010 +0100

    Save the EDID MD5 hash to device-profiles.conf for xrandr devices

> That would be nice, then I could let GCM do "the right thing" for me. Dep on
> GCM is not a problem I think, as I'm probably going to use Python's ctypes
> then, which can tell me if the library is installed and I can also use it to
> wrap the C function call.

Right, this is probably the best thing to do. I'll look at
librification now, although it's quite a big change, and it might make
sense for the gnome3 stuff to settle down first.

Richard.