Set color profiles

[elementaryBot]

It would be nice to be able to set color profiles here instead of having a separate color profiles plug.

[Alizame]

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I think it doesn't really make sense to set the color profiles for the displays "here".
The purpose of color profiles is to make sure different devices like printers, scanners and displays show the exact same color (not only on your system but on any system).

I think we should add a new switchboard-plug-color for this.

(I actually started working on something like this a few weeks ago, but I had a hard time working with the vala documentation and lost the motivation to do it)
[The Language itself is really good, but everything around it just isn't ;(]

[cassidyjames]

@Alizame I think the argument is that "color calibration" on its own isn't really a natural thing—it seems more natural to pair the calibration with the hardware device it affects, like displays and printers. I think having a calibration setting in the Printers plug would also work.

[Alizame]

My point is: Color calibration doesn't make sense if you only set it for your display, ideally you calibrate all your input/output devices like scanners, displays, printers and cameras. So why should we make the color calibration settings 3 times instead of making one new plug for everything?

That's also how Gnome and KDE (and others?) have done it.

Doing this isn't very hard because you can just use colord (via lib or via dbus).

[cassidyjames]

@Alizame color calibration isn't just for printing/scanning, though. If you're a digital designer or video editor, it still helps to calibrate your display so you know what you're seeing is as consistent as possible with what your coworkers are seeing. I'm not strictly opposed to a single Color plug, but I still think it makes sense in the individual hardware plugs.

[ramirocantu]

@Alizame I agree with @cassidyjames here. Different devices require different calibrations and I would expect color settings to be found within a device's setting plug. Color is an essential feature of a monitor or printer but not of a computer. It sorts of relates to the blog post on accessibility features being a part of the device plugs - how larger text became part of the desktop plug.

[marcolaux]

@ramirocantu @cassidyjames
Is it possible to use colormgr? Within the live session I'm unable to set any color profile for my display with colormgr (btw: Night Light also does not seem to work for me within the live session).

[hanaral]

If anyone is interested you can set colour profiles with the preinstalled colormgr tool already