Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Question about internal color conversion and gamma flow

[Robert K. <rl...@al...>]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 07:37:56 -0400, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 08:11:02PM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> I'm not a huge fan of changing color output of stable printers during
>> a release train, but this is more of a bug, and I think fixing it is
>> the right thing to do.
>
> So do you think we should keep the option of using the old 
> behaviour?

I'm a bit on the fence about it, in this case.  It sounds like the
behavior was more or less objectively wrong
Also, did this behavior regress at some reasonably recent point, or
was this the case all along?

> On a related note, I've contemplating just ripping out support in the 
> dyesub driver for per-printer curves.  They haven't actually worked 
> since 2006, and what few exist are invalid in light of the gamma curve 
> change.  IMO standard ICC profiles should be used instead.

That sounds reasonable.
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