RE: Profile monitor for many users
RE: Profile monitor for many users
- Subject: RE: Profile monitor for many users
- From: Matthew Finlay <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:18:01 +1000
- Thread-topic: Profile monitor for many users
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:02:53, John Gnaegy wrote "Unfortunately there
isn't a simple way to do what you want to do. There's no way to
propagate the display profile setting of an admin user to other users,
and on 10.6.x there's no way to set a display profile without selecting
the profile in System Preferences - Displays - Color."
Hi John,
Sorry for the late response, I Just wanted to add my thoughts to this
thread as this issue is a continuous source of pain for me.
As far as I can tell the current OSX architecture has a "Display
Profile" property for every user account, but no way to make them all
dependant on an administrator accounts choice of preference or setup.
IMO this approach should be replaced by one global "display profile"
property (preferably one that can be modified by both admin & non-admin
users). This Display profile should be set as the default for all new
users.
I have been trying to think of an instance where two users on the same
computer would need to have different profiles for the same monitor, and
have not been able to think of anything that would require such an
approach. Has anyone ever encountered a scenario where this approach was
necessary?
>From the perspective of someone trying to manage this type of scenario
across multiple sites/networks/companies the current situation is an
absolute nightmare and a clunky assistive devices work around doesn't
help much at all.
When you break it down logically, one user per mac+monitor should only
need to calibrate the monitor once every so often to allow for changes
in the monitors behavior. To assume that every user who logs into a
machine should have to separately manage the calibration of their own
calibration is ridiculous and impractical, not to mention a huge waste
of time for any party approaching the task of maintaining consistent
color in this way...
A working environment that requires it's users to log in individually is
always going to be desirable to system administrators for the obvious
security advantages that this scenario provides...
Do we really all have to try and use assistive devices based start-up
scripts for what seems to be a flaw in apples OS X architecture?
Regards
Matt
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