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Re: Default colors vs. gamma


From: Fred Kiefer
Subject: Re: Default colors vs. gamma
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:07:33 +0200
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Alexander Malmberg wrote:
A common complaint about GNUstep is that it isn't pretty enough, and a common response in #GNUstep is "fix your gamma". Since it seems that most users don't set their gamma properly, I wrote the following patch:

http://w1.423.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/systemColorGamma.patch

which simply does gamma adjustments on the default system colors before using them. The GSSystemColorGamma default controls the gamma, and defaults to 1.6, which makes things bright and cheerful for non-gamma-adjusted users. (Users who have adjusted their gamma will want to set this default to 1.0 or things will be _very_ bright. :)

So, do we want to do this? If so, what do we want the default value to be? 1.6 is nice for users who haven't set their gamma, but not so nice for users who have set it; I'm not really happy about forcing users who have set things up properly to set a default just to tell GNUstep that their system is set up properly, but if this makes GNUstep prettier to other users, it might be worthwhile.


I am almost sure that this is the wrong solution to an important problem. What you did is just hacked into the palce where the system colour list is generated when it is not installed. If this is the only thing that needs to be done, than why don't we provide a separate system colour list for systems with wrong gamma settings?

What this patch does not fix is that any colour generated on such a system will be a bit dark. This would require a fix in the backend and thinking about it I would ratehr go for full CMS handling than just a bit of gamma fiddling.

Fred




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