Sven Neumann wrote: > You misunderstood me then. Managing colors does of course belong into > the core but I would like to keep the implementation out of the core. > The idea is to be able to use different color management systems and > not to restrict ourselves to lcms. GEGL seems to offer just the right > level of abstraction that would be needed here. That's why it seems > like a nice idea to use it. That's a good point, also because in the lcms-user maillist there was a thread about "Fast colour managed preview, how?" , where Gerhard Fuernkranz pointed out, that "Argyll's IMDI routines are _very fast_ with 8bpp input": http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6213268&forum_id=1912 . regards Gerhard