On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:40 +1100, Maxwell Bowerman wrote: > An actual app for DTP is only one aspect though. GNOME would need a colour > management system such as ICM or ICC and easy calibration. Calibration isn't easy, ever. It involves pieces of expensive hardware stuck onto the screen and regular calibration of said hardware. Unless you mean the Adobe Photoshop style consumer "calibration", which basically determines the colour temperature of your display. All modern displays are basically (or can be) calibrated to sRGB, which makes this requirement not as important. However I did start (and so did someone else, though I can't recall who) a tool to calibrate the display like the Photoshop utilty does. For a colour management system there is "lcms" (the Little CMS). Eye Of Gnome and GIMP both use this, and follow the ICC Profiles In X "specification" I wrote last summer: http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/xicc There is an open bug with Scribus to use it, and I believe Krita either has support or will have. > A colour picker is also an essential applet, such as the KDE tool mentioned > here: The standard GTK+ colour picker dialog supports taking colours from anywhere on the screen, so if an application re-invents a colour picker and doesn't implement that feature too, that is their problem. I don't believe there is a use-case for a dedicated panel applet, as ideally the eyedropper will be next to the colour selectors. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: ross burtonini com jabber: ross burtonini com www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
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