[sane-devel] ICC support - summing up

[stef]

Le lundi 8 juin 2009 21:40:05 Julien BLACHE, vous avez écrit :
> "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My fingers slipped on the keyboard, so if you get an empty mail before
> this one... sorry.
>
> >> My take on this is that it should be handled out of band and by the
> >> frontend only. The frontend should have all the information needed to
> >> determine which ICC profile applies.
> >
> > I agree. But in the case of saned, this means each client would need
> > the ICC profile for the scanner installed locally, or some other
> > protocol would have to be used to call the server for it.
>
> As I wrote already, saned is not for scanning over the Internet on a
> random scanner thousands of miles away. If you're scanning over the
> network, you're scanning over YOUR network, which means YOUR Oyranos
> server is accessible the same way the saned host is accessible at the
> time the scan is done. I don't see a problem here, really.
>
> Worst case the frontend can generate the ICC profile identification
> and you can retrieve it later on with that.
>
> JB.

	Hello,

	if it wasn't for the API, wouldn't be the backend the best place to know 
about a scanning device ICC profile ?

Regards,
	Stef