From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Which one has the right color, Emacs or GIMP? Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:29:45 +0900 Message-ID: <87ljm9bnna.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <4A6E3DB9.1050907@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248744835 29396 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2009 01:33:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Emacs-Devel devel To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 28 03:33:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MVbZY-0000sp-Sk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:33:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47695 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVbZX-0000UP-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:33:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MVbZT-0000Sm-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:33:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MVbZP-0000Ob-9p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:33:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46233 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVbZP-0000OV-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:33:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:36221) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MVbZM-0004SF-Pr; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA31C1537B8; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:33:30 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3417511EF3C; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:29:45 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <4A6E3DB9.1050907@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 5bbff3553494 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113264 Archived-At: Sort of OT since Lennart discovered a typo.... Jason Rumney writes: > GIMP, as a specialist image editing application, is probably taking > things like monitor gamma into consideration. I thought of that, but upon reconsideration I hope GIMP would not do that. RGBA? is the color equivalent of assembly language. If you want to deal with monitor gamma etc, use a color space designed for such adaptation.