Re: colord 0.1.0 released!

[Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn pcode nl>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme2 argyllcms com> wrote:
> Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote:
>>
>> The only missing piece was color management in printing.
>
> Nothing has stopped you color managing printing under Linux
> for some time now. Much Linux software supports ICC
> profiles (my icclib, and Marti's more popular lcms have been
> available to application developers for the last 10 years),
> and there has always been the fallback of color managing the
> rasters. Pluggins and extensions such as Alastair M. Robinson
> tools at <http://www.blackfiveimaging.co.uk/> have been around
> for quite a while too.
>
> colord joins/competes with Oyranos as a convenient way of managing
> profile (as well as ArgyllCMS's jcnf to a limited degree).

Sure, but it's the CUPS integration which is particularly nice...

> I'm wondering though, whether colord is a solution that will work
> with more than just GNOME ? How about FreeBSD :-) ?
> (i.e. how cross UNIX-like-platform or desktop is it ?)

Since GNOME runs on other unices too, I guess colord will too?

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn