[sane-devel] ICC support - summing up

[Yiannis Belias]

Hi Julien,

  Of course you're right. I failed to recend the link with the suggested work-flow, sorry.
http://orion.freehost.gr/gsoc-sane-workflow#B
What I meant above, was replacing the call at step (5)a with a call to a new get_icc_profile().
That call is made by the oyranos backend. The frontend would get the icc data from oyranos.
I'm just trying to make sure that I didn't miss a possibility for making this work with the least
disturbance on the sane codebase.

Yiannis

Julien BLACHE wrote
...
> And how would the frontend actually get the ICC data if it isn't aware
> of the get_icc_profile() call?
>
> You want to send the ICC profile over the network, so that means
> someone has to request it. The frontend doesn't know it's using the
> net backend; it's using the dll backend and doesn't even know the net
> backend exists. So it can't issue this request.
>
> > If that won't happen, do you see any other way of getting a remote
> > profile without having to update every backend to a new version of the
> > sane api?
>
> 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.
>
> JB.