news 28 Posted March 1, 2010 gnome-color-manager is a session program that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles in the GNOME desktop. Version 2.29.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2010-03-01 * Translations - Add Czech help translation (Milan Knizek) - Add Czech translation (Milan KnÞek) - Update Czech translation (Marek ÄŒernocký) - Updated French translation (Claude Paroz) - Updated German doc translation (Mario Blättermann) - Updated German translation (Mario Blättermann) - Updated Lithuanian translation (Aurimas ÄŒernius) - Updated Norwegian bokmÃ¥l translation (Kjartan Maraas) - Updated Russian translation (Alexandre Prokoudine) - Updated Slovenian translation (Andrej ŽnidarÅ¡iÄ) - Updated Spanish translation (Jorge González) - Updated Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander) * New Features: - Add a thumbnail image of the ColorCheckerDC (Graeme Gill) - Add ColorCheckerSG thumbnail (Hening Betterman) - Add LaserSoftDCPro thumbnail (Jorg Rosenkranz) - Add printer profiling support using argyllcms and GtkPrint (Richard Hughes) - Add some device type icons (Frédéric Bellaiche, Sebastian Kraft) - Add support for sending calibration images to print shops (Richard Hughes) - Add four more target thumbnails (Pascal de Bruijn) - Allow UDEV and CUPS coldplug to be done multi-threaded (Richard Hughes) - Allow virtual devices to be added to the device list (Richard Hughes) - Automatically use the EXIF data if available from TIFF files when calibrating devices. Fixes #609444 (Richard Hughes) - Conform to ICC Profiles in X Specification 0.3 (Richard Hughes) - Detect printers by connecting to CUPS rather than scraping the HPLIP properties (Richard Hughes) - Enable half-height targets for the ColorMunki, and double the patch counts for this hardware (Richard Hughes) - Make users do the legwork when there is an unrecognised colorimeter (Richard Hughes) - Play sounds using libcanberra when user interaction is required (Richard Hughes) - Properly support projectors in the UI, and in the argyllcms wrapper (Richard Hughes) - Remove GCM_HARDWARE_DETECTION as we're now shipping our own udev rules (Richard Hughes) - Save the device colorspace in the config file so we can set profiles when not connected (Richard Hughes) - Set a tooltip explaining why the calibrate button is insensitive (Richard Hughes) - Set per-user xsane global and device settings when we have assigned a scanner profile (Richard Hughes) - Show a GtkInfoBar warning if the profile has no vcgt table. Fixes #610287 (Richard Hughes) - Support other types of reference file other than IT8 (Richard Hughes) - Three FAQ entries out of five suggested filled in (Alexandre Prokoudine) - Update Help Preferences Text (Paul Finnigan) * Bugfix: - Add an 'All files' option on the file choosers. Fixes #610288 (Richard Hughes) - Add AC_PROG_RANLIB to configure. Fixes #610771 (Richard Hughes) - Add a list of colorimeters as we'll need this if argyllcms is not installed. Fixes rh#566414 (Richard Hughes) - Ask for the chart type first before we ask for calibration files (Pascal de Bruijn) - Capitalization fix for 'More Information' button (Michael Monreal) - Correct help Intro and Usage (Paul Finnigan) - Do low quality calibration when using targets with a low number of patches (Pascal de Bruijn) - Do not allow devices to be assigned profiles in different colorspaces from native (Richard Hughes) - Do not make the display calibration button sensitive (with tooltip) if we are using < XRandR 1.3 drivers. Fixes #610846 (Richard Hughes) - Do not show the display as 'default' even when using the binary blob (Richard Hughes) - Don't add Cups-PDF devices to the device list (Richard Hughes) - Ensure ~/.color/icc exists at startup. Fixes #566275 (Richard Hughes) - Ensure we set ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE and ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE even if we're using old versions of argyllcms (Richard Hughes) - Fix segfault when the profile has no description (Richard Hughes) - Have scanin compensate for perspective distortion (Pascal de Bruijn) - HIG string and capitalization fixes (Michael Monreal) - Only require the device to be present if it is a display type (Richard Hughes) - Read the ti2 file for the calibration model if we are analysing existing targets (Richard Hughes) - Replace ColorCheckerSG with a newly processed one (Pascal de Bruijn) - Replace colprof -aS with -aG (Pascal de Bruijn) - Set the colorspace on unconnected devices to avoid getting no profiles in the list (Richard Hughes) - Show a label in the device section when the user is using a xrandr-fallback driver. Fixes rh#566606 (Richard Hughes) - Support colorimeter devices that need to change mode in the middle of the calibration (Richard Hughes) - Use GFile internally so we can support importing profiles from gvfs mount points. Fixes #610285 (Richard Hughes) Version 2.29.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2010-02-01 * Translations - Added Italian translation (Francesco Groccia) - Updated Danish translation (Joe Hansen) - Updated French translation (Claude Paroz) - Updated German translation (Mario Blättermann) - Updated Norwegian bokmÃ¥l translation (Kjartan Maraas) - Updated Portuguese translation (António Lima) - Updated Russian translation (Alexandre Prokoudine) - Updated Slovenian translation (Andrej ŽnidarÅ¡iÄ) - Updated Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander) * New Features: - Enable the rendering intent and default colorspace UI elements (Richard Hughes) - Show whether the ICC profile has a VCGT tag in the UI (Richard Hughes) - Filter out non RGB and CMYK color space profiles from the combo-boxes using a heuristic (Richard Hughes) - Add a new DBus method GetProfileForWindow which can return a profile for a supplied XID (Richard Hughes) - Add some new text and tooltips to the prefs dialog (Richard Hughes) - Add per-user OSX ICC profiles at startup (Richard Hughes) - Add OSX and Windows ICC profiles if they exist from mounted volumes. Fixes #607390 (Richard Hughes) - Add a device profile entry of 'Other profile...' to be able to easily import a profile. Fixes #607389 (Richard Hughes) - Add a precision GConf variable to control the time a calibration takes. Fixes #605558 (Richard Hughes) - Screenscrape the Argyll output to better support other hardware devices. Fixes #605558 (Richard Hughes) - Do not show the 'Fine tuning' expander by default, and have configuration in GConf (Richard Hughes) * Bugfix: - Zero out GErrors after freeing. Fixes crash (Christian Hergert) - Add gnome-desktop path as fallback for pci.ids (Frederic Crozat) - Do not generate an error if a display profile does not have CLUT data (Richard Hughes) - Add gcm-fix-profile to load and then re-save existing profiles using lcms (Richard Hughes) - Fix compile when using an ld that defaults to --as-needed (Richard Hughes) - Do not allow the colorspace combobox to be zero sized. Fixes #606484 (Richard Hughes) - Make gcm-prefs a normal dialog rather than a modal dialog (Richard Hughes) - Only scan ICC locations with hfs partition types for OSX and msdos/NTFS types for Windows (Richard Hughes) - Make gcm-prefs startup a few hundred ms quicker by not loading the list of screens (Richard Hughes) - Cache gnome_rr_screen_new and take 0.7 seconds off the start time (Richard Hughes) - Don't resize the window on startup. Fixes #607391 (Richard Hughes) - Update the Free Software Foundation address (Richard Hughes) Version 2.29.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2010-01-04 * Translations - Added German help translation (Christian Kirbach) - Added Slovenian translation (Matej UrbanÄiÄ) - Added Spanish translation (Jorge González) - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (Flamarion Jorge) - Updated British English translation (Bruce Cowan) - Updated Danish translation (Joe Hansen) - Updated French translation (Claude Paroz) - Updated German translation (Christian Kirbach) - Updated German translation (Mario Blättermann) - Updated Russian translation (Alexandre Prokoudine) - Updated Slovenian translation (Andrej ŽnidarÅ¡iÄ) * New Features: - Add two elements in the UI, for RGB and CMYK working spaces (Richard Hughes) - Add a TRC curve to the profile display (Richard Hughes) - Add LCMS as a hard build-time dependency (Richard Hughes) - Add PackageKit integration so we can install shared-color-targets (Richard Hughes) - Offer to install ArgyllCMS if it is not installed, and the user wants to calibrate (Richard Hughes) - Add a simple GcmImage class that makes embedded color profiles 'just work' (Richard Hughes) - Import ICC profiles when dragged and dropped on the prefs capplet (Richard Hughes) - Linkify the copyright and manufacturer strings in the profile dialog (Richard Hughes) - Add a PolicyKit rule for the system-wide profiles install (Richard Hughes) - Load the system-wide default if it has been installed (Richard Hughes) * Bugfix: - Fix the reference file import filter (Pascal de Bruijn) - Also evaluate /usr/local/bin when searching for Argyll tools. Fixes #605552 (Pascal de Bruijn) - Add an icon for a colorspace conversion profile (Richard Hughes) - Fix the help file installation so that yelp recognizes our help file (Richard Hughes) - Do not install the demo ICC files, and instead depend on the shared-color-profiles package (Richard Hughes) - Fix using profiles with VCGT formulas encoded in them (Richard Hughes) - If getting the illuminants failed, try running it through the profile (Richard Hughes) - Use strftime rather than our own hand-rolled function (Richard Hughes) - Show the TRC curves in the UI, rather than the vcgt curves (Richard Hughes) - Make gcm-dump-edid more useful by showing parsed data if available (Richard Hughes) - Use as much of the EDID as we can when generating device IDs. Fixes #605013 (Richard Hughes) - Add an experimental user-calibrate wizard, which the user can use when there is no calibration hardware available (Richard Hughes) - Use the hardware calibration device in the profile name. Fixes #605259 (Richard Hughes) - Sanitize the basename in GcmCalibrate when set. Fixes #605348 (Richard Hughes) - Use the ORIGINATOR tag in the it8 file to specify a device prefix for the device calibration. Fixes #605259 (Richard Hughes) - Move the device matching from a hard-coded list to a set of udev rules (Richard Hughes) - Properly detect broken dispcal output. Fixes #605838 (Richard Hughes) Version 2.29.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2009-12-07 * Translations - Add Russian translation (Alexandre Prokoudine) - Add British English translation (Bruce Cowan) - Add Indonesian translation (Andika Triwidada) - Add French translation (Claude Paroz) - Add Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander) - Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Flamarion Jorge) - Add Lithuanian translation (Gintautas Miliauskas) - Add German translation (Hendrik Brandt) - Add Danish translation (Joe Hansen) - Add Spanish translation (Jorge González) - Add Norwegian bokmÃ¥l translation (Kjartan Maraas) - Add Thai translation (Phondanai Khanti) - Add Polish translation (Piotr DrÄ…g) - Add Estonian translation (Priit Laes, Mattias Põldaru) - Add Tamil translation (vasudeven) - Add Russian user guide translation (Alexandre Prokoudine) - Add Indonesian user guide translation (Andika Triwidada) * New Features: - Add gcm-import, a helper to allow double clicking on ICC profiles to import them (Richard Hughes) - Add gcm-prefs, a utility to assign profiles to devices, examine profiles, and set session-wide defaults (Richard Hughes) - Add gcm-session, a dbus-activated session daemon for applications to get the profiles for a device, or device class and to get session-wide defaults. It exits when no longer used to save resources. (Richard Hughes) - Add gcm-self-test, a self test framework that tests GCM functionality (Richard Hughes) - Add gcm-apply, a simple utility to just set (or reset) display profiles (Richard Hughes) - Add gcm-inspect, a debugging utility to inspect the profiles set in the session (Richard Hughes) - Add gcm-dump-edid, a utility to dump the EDID to disk for debugging (Richard Hughes) - Add gcm-dump-profile, a utility to dump the ICC profile to the screen (Richard Hughes) - Add some simple man pages and help document (Richard Hughes) - Add ArgyllCMS support to generate device profiles (Richard Hughes) - Add color calibration hardware auto-detection (Richard Hughes) - Add code to set the _ICC_PROFILE atom per-output and also per-screen (Richard Hughes) - Add some pre-calibration steps for external displays (Pascal de Bruijn) - Add hardware support for gphoto supported cameras (Richard Hughes) - Add hardware support for SANE suppoerted scanners (Richard Hughes) - Add hardware support for video4linux supported video devices (Richard Hughes) - Add hardware support for XRandR supported displays (Richard Hughes) - Add hardware support for hplip supported printers (Richard Hughes) - Add CIE widget to display visual data about different profiles (Richard Hughes) - Use the system DMI data to better itentify internal LCD panels (Richard Hughes) - Parse the EDID to get a better device description for displays (Richard Hughes) - Make the list orders predictable by setting a sort string (Richard Hughes) * Bugfix: - Use XDG directory to store data (Baptiste Mille-Mathias) - Remove markup from GTKBuilder translatable strings (Claude Paroz) - Update bluish.icc title (Lars Tore Gustavsen, Pascal de Bruijn) - Enable adding xrandr devices with no EDID (Martin Szulecki) - Avoid reporting a (false) failure on first import (Stephane Delcroix) - Fix the message-received cb signature (Stephane Delcroix) - Fix up numerous small bugs prior to first release (Richard Hughes) - Look for the debian-named argyllcms binaries first (Richard Hughes) - Set the brightness to 100% on internal LCD panels before we generate a output profile (Richard Hughes) _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
