Re: a color management issue and how do I link TOOL_NAME stuffs with AppKit

[Alex Perez]

On 25 Nov 2003, Adam Fedor wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 05:36, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:
> > Color management:
> > Where should I put color profile in the file system? On OSX it uses
> > 
> > /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/
> > 
> > Since I'm working on Maliwan and Blu Tulip (http://maliwan.sf.net)
> > and some parts of it could be added for color management system
> > which I was thinking of trying to add to GNUstep's color system in
> > future so it would be nice if there's a standard directory for keeping
> > icc colour profiles. May be somone want to discuss about
> > color management API for GNUstep. You are always welcome
> > at #gnustep
> > 
> 
> Well that's cool!  I had tried looking around for a color management
> library a while ago, but couldn't find anything that had the right
> license or was written in a decent language (c++, ugh!).
> 
> I think ColorSync/Profiles would be OK, but I'm not sure why Apple has
> so many separate directories devoted to similar things (Colors,
> ColorPickers already exist as well). It might be nice to consolidate
> everything under the Colors directory and have subdirectories under
> that.
At the risk of getting burned to a crisp for saying this, why break a 
standard and create another, completely unused and completely proprietory 
standard when one already exists. Can't we live with a somewhat poopy 
directory structure?

Alex Perez