Argyll color management system integration

[KH KH]

2007/12/12, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> The FLOSS color management scene (calibrating screens for pictures or
> video) is very small. In fact there is only one reference application
> every other project depends on or compares itself to: Argyll CMS. Argyll
> is free, supports many common (commercial and do-it-yourself) color
> meters, has been actively developed for more than a decade. It was on
> the Fedora package wishlist.
>
> Unfortunately its main author is not following best release practises
> and has chosen to use a non-standard unmaintained make replacement
> (jam), with static linking, private copies of common libraries, and all
> kinds of things distributions are not fond of. As a result no
> first-level distribution shipped Argyll. Despite the fact every color
> management HOWTO on the net points to it.
>
> I started untangling the mess in October but gave up after a frustrating
> week. Fortunately I had the good idea to put the result on fedorapeople,
> and lately Frédéric Crozat from Mandriva googled it and completed the
> work. On hindsight it seems I had stopped just short of the finish line.
> http://twinpeaks.dyndns.org/blog/general/2007/12/11/monitor-calibration-epilogue
>
> Since it'd be a shame to let my packaging work end up in Mandriva only,
> I picked up his package, changed back a few bits, added some stuff I had
> planned but not done yet, and pushed the result in the review queue:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=421921
>
> I'd appreciate if a friendly reviewer looked at the result.
>
> The following work has been done:
> – link against system libs, not built-in copies
> – build with modular X
> – remove the shell wrapper that was hiding build errors from rpm
> – reorder build logic to fix those errors
> – hal/pam/udev logic so colorimeters do not need root access
>
> The result is IMHO good enough to be merged. However, since this
> software has suffered from a secluded life due to the aforementioned
> problems, it would probably be a good idea if more clueful people than
> me checked the following points:
>
> – go over the build logs, check if the warnings are really harmless and
> fix the code if needed (where is the list of people that wanted to do
> this kind of work a few months ago?)
> http://nim.fedorapeople.org/argyllcms/build.log
> I doubt argyllcms was ever built with a modern gcc with all the fancy
> options we use and for all the architectures we target
>
> – check if I got the hal/pam/udev logic right, push bits upstream if
> needed (I didn't find two Fedora packages that did it the same way, all
> I can say the way I did it works on my system)
>
> – check if upstream didn't mess up licensing as it did the code
>
> Then we'll have one key app for photographers and video buffs nailed,
> and there will only be the matter of pushing fixes upstream.
>
> Regards,
I have submitted some packages that are related to color management..
xcalib - not feature complete but
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=285351
oyranos - used to managed icc profiles within cinepaint (only for now)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239936

As i've understood, this package do not use lcms but i wonder if it
can produce icc profiles... As such, I wonder where to put system icc
profiles ? (probably in /usr/share/color/icc but it may need to be
added to the filesystem package or a special package for icc/icm
profiles...) This question is probably more related to the package
i've submitted..

Nicolas (kwizart)

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