why do I need colord?

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/8/11 12:09 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>> 2011/11/8 Richard Hughes<hughsient at gmail.com>:
>>> 2011/11/7 Michał Piotrowski<mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>:
>>>> Out of curiosity I wanted to ask, why do I need colord on my system?
>>>
>>> Checkout http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/ for details about
>>> the project.
>>
>> I know what colord is intended for and I think this is really cool for
>> desktop. I began to wonder why do I need it on my machine, because
>> this system has no lcd panel attached - I'm accessing it through ssh.
>
> Printers and scanners have color spaces too.

Yea, but a lot of people don't have those either. I have around 5K
servers in DCs with not a single printer or scanner in site. The vast
majority of the 4 million odd XOs out there while they have a screen
don't have a printer or scanner anywhere in sight.

Peter