Bug 152521

Summary: Digikam Edit / Showfoto: Use Color Managed View setting in config page is ignored (in my view this is a usability bug)
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Ar <ari.reads>
Component: ColorManagement-ViewsAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.9.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 1.0.0

Description Ar 2007-11-18 22:09:02 UTC 
Version:           0.9.3Beta (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)
OS:                Linux

If I set "Color Managed View" in showfoto (or in Digikam in Edit mode), click OK, I would think I was using a color managed view. It turned out I was not. If you go back to the config page, then you find the "Color Managed View" is off again.

I found this out after wasting time with a few  images, by pure chance, opening a UFRAW-converted PNG with an embedded profile in both GIMP (with color managed *really* enabled) and Digikam. I sadly realized I wasted a few hours of image edits.

Then I wasted a few hours more troubleshooting digikam; I thought there were problems with my ICCs, then with UFRaw and even Gimp, etc. Even recompiled an SVN snapshot.

Then by chance I found now there is a key (F12) that "really really turns on" the color managed view.

Can you guys fix the misleading Configuration > Color Management > ICC profiles and settings "checkbox" that doesn't do what non-digikam-expert-users like myself would expect it to do? If it doesn't do anything, why is it there?

Also Adding a quick mention in the Config page to the F12 key to really really activate the thing would be great as well. Could save people hours of troubleshooting something that is not broken :|

TIA
Comment 1 Ar 2007-11-18 22:15:28 UTC 
Also: just found the small little icon on the bottom-right corner; I suggest making it more colorful or visible when indicating color mgmt is on. In my system it is dark-gray when on and light-gray when off; It went totally unnoticed :|

Anyways. sorry for the rant,
cheers
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Comment 2 Marcel Wiesweg 2009-08-22 17:14:57 UTC 
Color managed view settings via setup or via lower-right-corner icon are fully synchronized in 1.0-beta4