Re: OSX System profile in two places?
Re: OSX System profile in two places?
- Subject: Re: OSX System profile in two places?
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 23:31:58 -0600
John Gnaegy <email@hidden> writes:
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It's a focus on devices rather than on profiles. You have a display
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device, it has a profile. If you have more than one display device,
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each has its own profile. Which display is your best one?
There are three flaws with this line of reasoning:
1. It may be Apple's focus on devices rather than profiles, but the end
result is total confusion to a degree that at least two color management
experts couldn't even figure out what the hell the UI was telling us.
2. That the system profile should be, by default, based on a moving
target = the display profile.
3. That there even needs to be a system profile; but if there is going to
be a system profile, that it should be modified under a pop-up called
"Display". It makes about as much sense to me as making the Output pop-up
menu the secret location for defining the System Profile.
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Similarly you could have several printers, one of which is your
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preferred printer. Several cameras, one of which is your preferred
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camera. Open the ColorSync Utility and look at the Devices, that's the
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idea.
Yeah I've opened it and I don't get what it's actually doing. All users
need is yet another window to configure stuff, yet another window to get
confused in. When I change the profile for my free Lexmark printer,
nothing happens. It doesn't tell the driver what to go do with itself
(and use the newly selected profile). I still have to tell the driver to
use the new profile.
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The ability to do it the old way, to pick a specific profile for the
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system profile, is only a transitional phase. Maybe it's clearer if you
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pretend that option isn't there, and you can only choose between your
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attached displays.
The system profile is a transitional phase? What percent of a decade
constitutes a transitional phase? It's been close to half a decade
already. Dang, it's like a klingon.
Maybe it would be even clearer if Apple just dumped the thing instead of
asking or expecting users to somehow, intuitively pretend the option
isn't there.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (tm)
Boulder, CO
303-415-9932
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