[Desktop12.04-Topic] Color Management: Next Steps

[Till Kamppeter]

Blueprint:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-color-management-next-steps

In Oneiric we have introduced color management. We have at least basic 
functionality now. You can take existing ICC profiles and assign them to 
devices (AFAIK monitors, printers, scanners, webcams) and then the 
devices are appropriately corrected. The profile assignments are done 
via the Color capplet of GNOME Control Center, the management and 
distribution of the profiles via colord, applications use liblcms1 and 
liblcms2 to apply the ICC profiles.

In Precise we need to complete and improve the infrastructure: ArgyllCMS 
needs to be made distro-ready and added so that color calibration 
devices get supported, libcms1 needs to be replaced by libcms2, as the 
former is buggy and not maintained any more, and a color management UI 
must get added to the Common Print Dialog.

We also need to determine who will maintain the color management stack 
in Ubuntu.

    Till