[ptx] Display gamma... and colour management

[Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)]

Le 03.01.2006 22:24:14, Hal V. Engel a écrit :

> Yes this is a major issue.  I have been in contact with two different
> vendors
> to try to work out the details for getting the necessary technical
> information to write the code to add support for affordable currently
> available measurement devices to LPROF.  One of the vendors, who shall
> remain
> un-named, were total a$$es about the subject and were totally against
> giving
> that information to me or making high level binary libraries available
> for
> Linux users for anything other than x86 and at this point are no
> longer
> making that available.
> 
> I am still talking with the second vendor but the results are
> uncertain at
> this point.  They do have linux binary libraries for x86 but I have
> not been
> able to get my hands on these and they are very uncertain about how to
> make
> the libraries available to Linux/Unix users.  But at least they are
> willing
> to talk to me about the subject.  If the talks drag on much longer I
> will
> start talking to the third vendor.  But the sad part is that there are
> only
> three possible vendors that I know of.
> 
> My impression so far is that the entire industry is clueless about how
> to deal
> with the Linux/Unix market segment.   They want this to be just like
> the
> Windows market where they provide a binary library for one
> architecture.
> When it is pointed out to them that for this market segment binary
> libraries
> need to be available from them for more than a dozen architectures
> (LPROF has
> been build on 15 architectures that I know of)  you can almost see
> their eyes
> glaze over when talking to them on the phone.   In addition,  they
> seem to
> have a hard time accepting that many of the applications in this
> segment are
> supported by "one man shops" so that makes things even more difficult.
> 
> In any case there is at least a small glimmer of hope that the problem
> will be
> solved sometime soon.

Very interesting.
But the problem is as well with the (potential) suppliers as with our  
brave old X system.
X is not really designed with colour management in mind. Maybe it is a  
bit (!) old?

> 
> >

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Jean-Luc
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