[MIR] gnome-color-manager

Bug #788145 reported by Till Kamppeter
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gnome-color-manager (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Didier Roche-Tolomelli

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-color-manager

Availability: Currently available in Universe, building on all currently supported architectures, see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-color-manager

Rationale: In Oneiric we want to introduce ICC-based color management on the operating system level, using the same architecture as Fedora does. gnome-color-manager is part of this architecture. Therefore we need it in Main. This MIR is a work item of the following Blueprint:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-icc-color-management

According to the Blueprint additional demand on CD space for the whole introduction of color management is around 300K only.

Security: No security vulnerabilities known at CVE and Secunia, no SUID components, no daemons, has /usr/sbin/gcm-install-system-wide executable which seems to install ICC profiles for availability in the whole system.

Quality assurance: Installs without debconf questions (package has no maintainer scripts at all), after installation color management can be configured via "System" -> "Preferences" -> "Color Profiles". The package is maintained upstream as new releases occur regularly and they get packaged for Ubuntu by Robert Ancell who works for Canonical (see debian/changelog).

UI standards: Seem to be fulfilled, the package contains the usual translation files and it appears in the menus with "System" -> "Preferences" -> "Color Profiles", so the .desktop file must be there.

Dependencies: Argyll is recommended by gnome-color-manager and so it should also get promoted to Main. Argyll is the software for supporting color calibration hardware which is an important part of color management.

Maintenance: See "Quality assurance".

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Robert, please check this MIR and also add your comments, as you are probably more knowledgeable about gnome-color-manager than me, especially if the MIR team has additional question.

Changed in gnome-color-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Argyll is recommended by gnome-color-manager and so it would need to get into Main, too. It is well maintained upstream but not well maintained in Ubuntu. See bug 782584.

One could drop it from the recommended packages of gnome-color-manager, but this way we would have a color-managed distro without support for calibration devices.

Matthias Klose (doko)
Changed in gnome-color-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks)
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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

@Till: is there any official goal or UDS record that we have enough space or want color management by default for oneiric?

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

put as incomplete, waiting for an answer.

Changed in gnome-color-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Unfortunately, no Debian/Ubuntu package of colord appeared yet and the Feature Freeze is in one week. Probably it is better to skip color management to PP. WDYT?

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

agreed, let's keep that state for PP

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

So let the color management mature somewhat in Fedora and let us see how it has developed on next UDS.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

First, colord is arriving and argyll is building, so chances for color management in Oneiric are good.

Second, gnome-color-manager is deprecated and replaced by a module in gnome-control-center. The module will appear after a rebuild of gnome-control-center with colord present. So this bug can be closed. Sorry for the noise.

Changed in gnome-color-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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