On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Elle Stone <ellestone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/04/2016 02:21 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: >> >> Supposing the option was renamed to be more explicit about what it >> does, would it still bother you? > > Making color management "disappear" for users who prefer to not ever think > about color management (very different from "disable color management") is > not such a bad goal, though the new image/color management options don't > (imho) accomplish this goal. > > Maybe try something along these lines? > > Put a user option in Preferences/Color Management that says "Check this box > if you really don't want to ever be bothered with color management." Write > an explanation that says something like: > > >snip< > > If you check this box, the following will happen: > > 1. sRGB will be used as your monitor profile. If your monitor has an sRGB > emulation mode, please enable it. > (Perhaps add additional options for users who don't want to think about > color management but do have a monitor or installed system profile that they > want GIMP to use). > > 2. All color management options will be grayed out in the UI. Such graying out is a good idea; all of this code is unfinished code that mitch is currently working on, combined with graying out as well as setting the title of the titleboxes to the name of the internal sRGB profile - I think a short text of "Assume sRGB for all profile settings" might be sufficient for such a check--box, if that is the direction GIMP choses to take on this issue. > 3. All imported images will automatically be converted to sRGB for editing. > You won't have to think about this. It will just happen. For some people this might not be what they desired though; they might have desired assignment of sRGB rather than conversion to sRGB - to preserve numeric values; thankfully for sRGB images those actions would have the same result. > 4. Your XCF files will be automatically saved in the sRGB color space. > > 5. All exported images will be exported as untagged sRGB images. > (Perhaps add an option to embed an sRGB profile from disk for users who > are aware of how Firefox default color management settings. Though this > might be "too much information" as they would also need to know the > difference between what makes sense for UI elements in web design, vs what > makes sense for photographic images.) > > Well, it's just a thought. I get emails from people asking me how to avoid > color management as much as possible, and above is pretty much the advice I > give them, and they do seem to understand and follow through. They even > understand the part about Firefox default color management settings once > they've been given an explanation. The goal of the setting mitch has started experimenting with is a response to similar desires users baffled by the permutation of possible misconfigurations of color management continue to express. /pippin _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
