The state of color

I don't know your code, so I don't know if it works. Heck, I don't recognize your nick, so I don't know who you are and what you're working on. I don't owe you any deep and detailed explanations either. But what the heck...

What I do know is that the icc profiles in X spec is dead as a doornail, just check it: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icc_profil.... It's always been a very iffy spec with no two applications interpreting it the same way, so it never worked in practice. Sure, _you_ may feel that _you_ did it right and got it working, but that means zilch if no other application uses it the same way. And it's a dead spec anyway.

As for your goings on about colord being Linux only, and remote X11 displays -- I don't care. There is no reason for me to care. There is nobody using X11 except for Linux users anymore, and there's nothing Linux specific about colord anyway.

If there's anyone left who uses FreeBSD or Solaris or AIX or HPUX or whatever, they can port colord. Maybe they already did, I don't know. And using an application like Krita over a remote connection is a completely ridiculous proposition anway. So, yeah, short and clear: it's not a pity and not a step backwards for Krita to use colord instead of _ICC_PROFILE. It's a step forwards, because Krita now works with multiple moniros for the majority of Linux users (who now have it better than Windows users, who still need to manually configure the monitor profiles).