Over last week Kai-Uwe Behrman updated almost the whole stack of his color management applications and libraries, so here comes cumulative news story.

It starts with libXcm, the X11 Colour Management library:

• XcmEdidParse EDID parser API was added;
• XcmEvents API was added;
• license in file headers was fixed;
• C++ guards in headers were added;
• documentation was updated.

Then he released initial version of Xcm — a set of tools based on libXcm. The package currently has two tools: xcmedid and xcmevents. Xcmedid parses EDID data for identification and accesses colorimetric data, while xcmevents tool observes known X11 color management events from the command line.

Then Kai-Uwe did a maintainance release of Oyranos, a color management system used by CompIcc (see below), ICC Examin (ICC profiles inspection tool) and KDE's Kolor Manager. The changes are:

• support for libXcm-0.3.0;
• support for EDID refresh in oyX1 module;
• support for 'clro' and 'clrt' tags;
• installation of qcmsevents tool with its desktop file;

Finally a maintainance release of CompIcc, a Compiz plugin for GPU-side ICC color correction of monitor output, was put online with two important changes:

• support for libXcm-0.3.0;
• support for configuration refresh after hotplugging a monitor.

You can download:

• libXcm;
• Xcm;
• Oyranos;
• CompIcc.

More on this topic:

• Richard Hughes on color management in Linux and GNOME
• GNOME Color Manager, preliminary review
• LProf and the real world color management on Linux
• Argyll 1.3.4 adds support for recent X-Rite and ColorMunki colorimeters
• LittleCMS 2.2 adds support for ICC profiles metadata