On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 18:08 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On 11/8/11 12:09 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> >> 2011/11/8 Richard Hughes<hughsient@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >>> 2011/11/7 Michał Piotrowski<mkkp4x4@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >>>> Out of curiosity I wanted to ask, why do I need colord on my system? >> >>> >> >>> Checkout http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/ for details about >> >>> the project. >> >> >> >> I know what colord is intended for and I think this is really cool for >> >> desktop. I began to wonder why do I need it on my machine, because >> >> this system has no lcd panel attached - I'm accessing it through ssh. >> > >> > Printers and scanners have color spaces too. >> >> Yea, but a lot of people don't have those either. I have around 5K >> servers in DCs with not a single printer or scanner in site. The vast >> majority of the 4 million odd XOs out there while they have a screen >> don't have a printer or scanner anywhere in sight. > > Don't forget that cameras have colorspaces as well. And all 4 million > XOs have one of those :) Yep, but most kids care more about being able to store more photos from it on the 1Gb of storage (or 4Gb on the newer ones where we ship gnome with sugar) rather than the colour correction of the pictures it takes. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
