Re: Installing display profiles/interfacing with gcm

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

Am 16.06.2010 16:13, schrieb Richard Hughes:
> > 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

Cool, thanks!

> > > 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 useit 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.

No need to hurry, I'm glad you're looking into it! :)

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