On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 17:25 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:57 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:30:09 -0700, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:18 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > >> You may need to take of the pink glasses ? :-) > > > > > > I *really* hope everyone working on this is using a properly > > > colour-calibrated display? > > > > It looks like some kind of calibration on my other laptop is in order. > > It is clearly grey on this laptop (not blue either though.) But, I'm not > > sure how to calibrate it. :( > > > > Um, if all my designs are a little too pink in the future, it's not the > > Hello Kitty thing, really! > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_color_management looks like a decent > reference. Note that doing really reliable calibration requires some > hardware. Perhaps getting a single colorimeter to pass around all the > people within Fedora who are likely to be messing with colors would not > be a bad idea. > > You can do rough ballpark calibration without hardware, and how to do it > is pretty well detailed in this Dan's Data post: > > http://www.dansdata.com/spyder.htm > > under the heading 'Alternatives'. > > Note that this is a case of do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do, because my two > monitors and laptop are all cheerfully different from each other. But > then, I don't do any graphic design =). For those who are working with > colors, having a properly-calibrated display is pretty key. Just to go back to this, in a moment of serendipity, hughsie happens to be working on exactly this: http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/10/28/gnome-color-manager/ -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
