Hi,

Stefan Klein writes:

sorry about the cross-list posting, but it is the easiest way to say this... At CinePaint (cinepaint.sourceforge.net) we are in the process of integrating full colour management following the ICC standard. A while ago, there has been some discussion on the Open ICC list (openicc@pdx.freedesktop.org) about a directory standard for ICC profiles on Linux.

the cross-posting is prefectly fine. I wanted to ask the GIMP developers to join this list anyway. There hasn't been much traffic lately but CMS is an important aspect and it would make a lot of sense to discuss standards in that area since GIMP will want to use them sooner or later. Actually I was hoping for sooner but so far no work has been started on improving the color display filter API to allow for better color management. If anyone is interested in improving GIMP in this area, please let me know.

Marti Maria, developer of littlecms (www.littlecms.com), suggested /usr/share/color/icc and ~/.color/icc as intuitive paths. We decided to go along with this.

Sounds like a reasonable decision. As a first step we should change the color proof display filter to install these directories as shortcuts in the file chooser used to select profiles.

Sven

kleins@web.de (2004-05-20 at 0124.38 +0200):

Marti Maria, developer of littlecms (www.littlecms.com), suggested /usr/share/color/icc and ~/.color/icc as intuitive paths. We decided to go along with this.

Could a small change be done? Make the global dir a pair, /usr/local/share/color/icc then /usr/share/color/icc to keep the now traditional organization of admin made and system shipped files.

I got the idea from, which could also be taken into account for a more detailed standard:
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

As side note, if anybody knows how to get a spec into freedesktop, that would be the best. The specs do not have to be huge at all, but being documented in such site would help to get them used.

GSR

Hi,

GSR - FR writes:

/usr/share/color/icc and ~/.color/icc as intuitive paths. We decided to go along with this.

Could a small change be done? Make the global dir a pair, /usr/local/share/color/icc then /usr/share/color/icc to keep the now traditional organization of admin made and system shipped files.

It is certainly not a good tradition to have /usr/local in any standard paths. IMO the right solution is to add an environment variable to specify the search path and to have the default search path as suggested above (not including /usr/local !).

However this discussion belongs to the OpenICC list and should better be continued there.

Sven