Hi, my name is Kai-Uwe Behrmann from Chemnitz/Germany. I work as free programmer and photograph panoramas on medium format film.
The scribus application has an promizing CMS. In order to test it and to get a look and feel of its behaviour I liked to go in the CMS dialog. Therefore I created an directory containing Display-/Output-and Color Space profiles and set the icc-profile directory to the same. I know them all working with lcms. Anyway no dialog. I helped scribus with CMSavail = true; but that seems not the intented way. After opening an document scribus complains about: lcms: Error #12288; File '/$prefix$/lib/scribus/profiles/Display.icc' not found. This is the profile I selected for displaying. Only I have it in the ICC directory not the "standard" path as above. Scribus exits with the above message. Exchanging this well known profile. Now I see the dialog. Now opening an document: crash, profile not found. Once installed with root privilegs I use root access again and link profiles to /$prefix$/lib/scribus/profiles/ . Huu it works, finaly. So it is after some fiddeling possible to get it working, here comes my thought about this behaviour/(bug?): Why do not show the dialog anyway, no matter if there are profiles or not? Usually I make things working step by step. If I could at least see no entrys in the selector I would know there are no display profiles for instance. The current behaviour shows me two pitfall, all I jumped in, I see no CMS dialog till I have all needed profiles at once and I selected the right path but scribus dont really likes this. ... and I found no hint in an readme - the one in /$prefix$/lib/scribus/profiles/ I found after all this. Fine it works and shows me options I was never aware of before, wow :-) Now comes my question to the look and feel, the reason I initially signed in to this list. Why do scribus use these kind of lists for profile selecting? Where comes it from? I have seen this dialog designas well in Karl-Heinz Kraemers colour-manager plug-in for gimp. Next: You show one profile selection for Images and one for Colours, what are they intented for? (Hope, I dont repeat former asked questions.) kind regards Kai-Uwe