There is a long list of technologies in Mac OS X that could be used to improve 
Wine on OS X. One of them is ColorSync. ColorSync is a color management 
software that is HEAVILY integrated into the Mac OS. For instance, you can 
calibrate your monitor and when OS X starts up, it will read the color profile 
file and adjust the graphics card output.  It will also do color correction 
automatically in, e.g. Preview to get the best out of an image.

However, I do not know how ColorSync influences Mac OS X's X11 system.  It is 
possible that in order to take full advantage of ColorSync, a Mac OS X native 
front-end will need to be developed.

Another interesting Mac OS X technology is Image Capture.  This technology is 
used by the OS to scan images from a scanner as well as import images from a 
camera (iPhoto).  It provides a wrapper around TWAIN drivers so they can be 
used by applications that don't support TWAIN.  This is a purely C Framework. 
Although a sub-framework of the Carbon Framework, the functions are available 
in 64-bit code.  This should not be confused with the ImageCaptureKit 
framework, which is most likely an Objective-c wrapper around the main Image 
Capture framework.






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