Le 24/11/2018 à 04:51, David Houlder a écrit :
> On 24/11/18 3:22 am, Aurélien Pierre wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> my darktable is installed on Ubuntu Budgie (fork of Gnome 3), but it
>> was the same when I used Gnome Shell.  I have a custom screen ICC
>> profile installed in gnome-color-manager, and loaded in darktable
>> through colord.
>>
>> When I change the ICC profile on Gnome with darktable open, the
>> colors of the darkroom preview change too (no matter if darktable
>> uses the system display profile or one built-in profile, like Adobe
>> RGB). That is the contrast and white point of the picture, plus the
>> color of the UI.
>>
>> So that means that the OS is stacking another color transformation on
>> top of darktable's one.
>>
> Is it possible that you're just seeing the effects of the gamma ramps
> changing when they're loaded from the VCGT of the profile that you
> switch to?
>
When changing between D65 and D55 profiles, the colors take an amber
shift, so it's not just a problem of VCGT.
>
> If you can change the profile without loading the VCGT (or restore the
> gamma ramps manually after the change) and the supposedly
> non-colour-managed parts of the UI change, then I'd say that there's
> some kind of double-correction happening, otherwise it's probably
> working as intended.
>
>
I don't know if messing directly with the VCGT is even possible.
>>
>> Fromthis article
>> <http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/richard-hughes-on-color-management-in-linux-and-gnome>
>> (2011), I get that gnome expects apps to take care of themselves :
>>
>>     One of the things I tried to deliberately ignore designing colord
>>     was actually flipping pixel values. Colord is a very high level
>>     daemon that can say to apps like Krita or GIMP “Use this profile
>>     for this device” rather than them supplying a 140Mb memory buffer
>>     and an operation list. This means we can do the conversion on the
>>     CPU using lcms2 for some programs and using the GPU using a
>>     shader in things that use 3D. By not trying to wrap lcms we can
>>     let the application do the pixel conversion in the right layer in
>>     the right way.
>>
>>     Of course, the downside of this is that you have to patch
>>     applications to actually do the right thing. We can make this
>>     easier by doing some framework code for Clutter and Cairo, but
>>     sooner or later the application has to know about color
>>     management in one form or another. This is going to be my main
>>     focus for GNOME 3.4; now we have all the framework installed and
>>     working and we can say to application authors “It's already
>>     installed, so don't worry about the additional dependency, just
>>     commit my patch and it'll just work”.
>>
>> But gnome-color-manager has no documentation, and even the Gnome
>> color dev documentation is pretty useless (a lot of "how to", no
>> "what's going on", but they found time to design a cheesy
>> kindergarten theme).
>>
>> Looking at GDK pixbuf doc, they don't have tags to explicitely say
>> "hey that's already color-corrected so bug off". The Wikipedia entry
>> ofLinux color management
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_color_management> is as helpful
>> and factual as a marketing director motivational speech (let's
>> increase the leverage of color management by ensuring the quality of
>> good devices, with a pro-active method to supervise critical elements
>> in a proficent way — sure !).
>>
>> As of now, I have seen no block diagram to describe the full color
>> pipe in Linux, nor any way to ensure the quality of the transform.
>>
>> From the info I have gathered, the pipe I have put together is as follow:
>>
>> || darktable pipe -> LCMS/(Internal cmatrix color correction + TRC)
>> -> Cairo surface -> GDK pixbuff -> || -> Mutter compositor -> (OS
>> color correction ? TRC ?) -> Xorg -> Nvidia/Intel GPU driver ->
>> (Color correction ? VCGT ?) -> || -> HDMI DAC (gamma 2.2) -> Screen
>>
>> So my question is : does anyone have any idea of what's going on with
>> color on Linux, or are we stacking ICC on top of shit just to pretend
>> it's color-managed magically, somehow ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Aurélien.
>>
>>
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