Am Freitag, 29. März 2013, 19:09:00 schrub Alexander Wagner:
> Hi!

Hello.

> It seems that I do not understand some detail of the colour profile
> handling in Darktable correctly. Probably, someone could give me a
> helping hand here.

I will try. :)

[...]

> $ ln -s $HOME/.color/.icc $HOME/.config/darktable/color/in

This one isn't needed.

[...]

> Finally, I loaded the icc-profile from Gnome colour manager and added it
> as default for my monitor. To my understanding all colour aware
> applications should now use this profile for rendering whatever input to
> my monitor.

Well, only very few applications are able to get the profile from colord, it 
might be a bit better with the alternative way, the x atom. But that's a 
technical detail we can ignore for now.

> All looks pretty well till here.
> 
> Now I open Darktable with it's default settings. (Empty library.db etc.)
> If I understand it correctly, it should now ask colord for the profile
> to use and use it for the display itself, right?

Yes.

> So, if this is correct, I wonder why the colour rendering changes
> significantly if I expicitly switch /output color profile/ to /A.icc/
> instead of /system display profile/ (which is set to be A.icc as well
> via gnome colour manager and subsequently colord).
> 
> IMHO this should give the same result as /system display profile/. But
> actually what I get on screen seems to be sRGB regardless of what I set
> for system colour profile.
> 
> Could someone clarify my misunderstanding here?

You should change the display profile, not the output profile. For output you 
probably want something like sRGB or AdobeRGB.

> TIA!

HTH.

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