Would anyone like to comment on their experience with the new Color Management Feature Opensuse 12.1 ? How is it working for you ?
Your message reminded me that I was meaning to test it, but haven’t got round to it yet as 11.4 remains my main workhorse and 12.1 is so far only for fun… So I thought “let’s have a bit of fun with the new colour management” but I can’t find it! Where is it???
Same problem for me. I don’t know where to find it.
wrbbt wrote:
>> So I thought “let’s have a bit of fun with the new
>> colour management” but I can’t find it! Where is it???
>
> Same problem for me. I don’t know where to find it.
“zypper in kolor-manager” for kde, or “zypper in gnome-color-manager” for
gnome.
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Chris Maaskant
Thanks Chris. I relish the thought of having Color Management in our Suse boxen - something Windows users have had for eons. I am thinking more of mainline users here. Some clever people may have been using the very good Color Management tools in Digikam for example. I am sure many mainline users have experienced the disappointment of printing a nice image only to find it looks nothing like what they see on the screen. My hope is that the new Color Management will put an end to this. Having seamless Color Management from our Scanners to Printers is what we need. Imagine being able to set up a nice graphic in Scribus and printing exactly what we see.
I for one am very happy to see these developments.
I have an, as yet unused (in Linux) Spyder 3 on my shelf. Anybody tried that in Linux?
Thanks, Chris.
Kolour Manager is installed and now available in KDE System Settings. Despite having googled this topic I am still looking for answers. According to KDE System settings > Kolour Management, default settings are in place for the Printer, Camera and LCD Monitor. I went for sRGB for the former two, while my monitor is showing a GSM-_edid.icc. So far so good. My ambition is simply to have the colours displayed in my monitor aligned with those on my printer. Has anyone achieved this ?
Hi all. I did not realize that window effects are now controlled by KDE. Compiz is the only current window manager that has color correction built in but the default install does not use this. Correct me if I am wrong but we will not see any color correction on our desktops unless we are using Compiz. KDE has its own desktop effects and these work well, but no color correction just yet.
You know those abstract paintings that mean something to the intellectuals of this world. But nothing to me 
This thread is having the same effect.
On 01/07/2012 05:06 AM, cabernet wrote:
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> Correct me if I am
> wrong but we will not see any color correction on our desktops unless we
> are using Compiz. KDE has its own desktop effects and these work well,
> but no color correction just yet.
i do not know for sure, but i think compiz as an addon is no longer
needed for in KDE4 or Gnome3 for either composting or color management
Noteworthy is the fact that openSUSE is the first major Linux
distribution to ship color management tools for both the GNOME and KDE
desktops! . . . openSUSE 12.1 ships the KDE Plasma Desktop 4.7 as
default workspace and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the
new KolorManager + Oyranos color management tools.
from “openSUSE 12.1 – the Latest Free Software in a Stable and Easy
Manner” <http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights>
perhaps, you miss the “+ Oyranos” part of that equation, have a look
here: <Oyranos | Colour Management System;
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That’s cool, you don’t have to know everything. My aspirations are clear - I want/like color correction working on my Desktop.
Ha ! funny. My aspirations are clear. I want a working color correction system on my Desktop.
I need to read this link a couple of times. I have tried to play with some of the settings in KDE “Kolor Management” but no luck yet. My photographs look decidedly different from what the monitor displays.
Great to see people testing the new feature. I am the author of the Oyranos colour management system. Sorry that I come a bit late in that thread. But I hope to can add some infos to what you already found yourself.
Here are some posts about why Compiz is needed for whole screen colour correction of desktops:
Oyranos Colour Management LiveCD III | Oyranos
KDE and Colour Management | Oyranos
I call that type of colour correction in CompICC a colour server. Note that KDE, and maybe Gnome too, work only with the X11:Compiz:Comiz-0.8 version of CompICC.
Why a certain Firefox bug needs to be patched under the X colour server:
Firefox-8.0 Colour Management | Oyranos
For installation I usually go to the openSUSE package search page and download from there by one click installation. That needs the yast2-metapackage-handler to work. If thats installed go to:
software.opensuse.org: Search Results
compicc will trigger other packages but not all. You can install
kolor-manager, xcm, dispcalGUI, oyranos-monitor-nvidia, icc_examin_cinepaint, qcmsevents
All those packages are already on the above linked LiveCD. So you can test it more easily.
While monitor colour correction works very well with CompICC, we are not on the same level with printing. You need for each device a device ICC profile. That can be custom made by a colorimeter/spectrophotometer and a profiler, or given to you by a vendor or downloaded from the internet, or generated on the fly, like Oyranos does for monitors and the last is a default generic space like sRGB. The quality goes down in that direction too. But even the monitor on the fly profile can give together with CompICC a big improvement of desktops.
For general desktop printing you can currently only use vendor profiles. Sadly so far no one provides such for Linux. But some people are underway to package print profiles. We have some ideas to make installation of own user ICC profiles possible and like to introduce that into Oyranos/KolorManager. One alternative is to use PhotoPrint a very good frontend to Gutenprint or CinePaint with user profiles.