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Re: Where is the ICC profiles location on the system



man-d, 2010-01-31 17:53:45 -0500 :

> Hello,
>
> I can't find the ressource anymore (wrong keywords ?)...
>
> Where should we put the ICC profiles on our Debian Gnu/Linux system ?

  I don't know about the “should”, but for reference,
gnome-color-manager stores the user-chosen profiles in
$HOME/.color/icc/; when making one of these profiles the default one on
the system (with Gconf-fu, I imagine), g-c-m sticks it under
/var/lib/color.

> Does the location matter ? Perhaps not really if I'm the only user on
> the system ?
>
> At this time I leave them in a home subfolder for use with the Gimp,
> ArgyllCMS and Ufraw. These are three profiles: sRGB, the camera and the
> monitor.
>
> I take a look in the non-free icc-profiles package. Those profiles are
> stored in /usr/color/icc. But this folders are not created on the system
> now: I don't use this package.

  /usr/share/color/icc is probably for profiles shipped as part of a
package.  For locally-generated ones, or those obtained from other
sources, I think the “local directory” approach taken by g-c-m (/var or
$HOME depending on the case) makes sense.

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont mal vus.


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