Re: [Openicc] colord 0.1.0 released!

[Robert Krawitz <rlk alum mit edu>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:43:00 +0100, edmund ronald wrote:
> The colord authors seem to be smart people who are engaging the user
> community. They deserve my respect.
>
> However I would agree that the print problems of a certain "other"
> fruity OS are proving untractable, and it is not obvious that the same
> architectural choices should be introduced to Linux.
>
> The "other OS" has been very reluctant to provide options for pros who
> color manage upstream, and this has created considerable controversy.
>
> However, no one seems to have noticed is that the other OS has not
> really allowed individual print setting serialisation, and
> profile/paper association, going instead for a "bundled install"
> approach. Of course, this has been partly motivated by vendors desire
> for control. The complexity of actually getting a correct print from a
> third-party paper with a third-party profile on "fruit" is much
> greater than that of "just" telling the vendor's driver to print from
> RGB on a given vendor paper.

Not to mention third party inks, which can't even be represented in
the three component model.

The profile selector really does need to handle a serialized
description of the option settings.  I'd ideally like to be able to
handle different driver versions, since we allow multiple minor
versions of Gutenprint (including Gimp-Print 4.2) to be installed
concurrently.