colord is a system service that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles to accurately color manage input and output devices.
This functionality is implemented as a system activated daemon called colord. Being system activated means that it's only started when the user is using a text mode or graphical tool.
What colord does:
Provides a DBus API for other programs to query, e.g. "Get me the profiles for device $foo" or "Create a device and assign it profile $bar"
Provides a persistent database backed store for device -> profile mapping.
Provides the session for a way to set system settings, for instance setting the display profile for all users and all sessions.
See the website for more details.
Ensure the following packages are installed:
Then just do mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr .. && ninja
Ensure wine is installed
Compile with a lot of restricted options, e.g.
mingw64-configure \ --disable-argyllcms-sensor \ --disable-bash-completion \ --disable-polkit \ --disable-print-profiles \ --disable-sane \ --disable-session-example \ --disable-systemd \ --disable-udev \ --disable-unix \ --without-pic \ --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/tmp \ --with-udevrulesdir=/tmp && make
Patches are accepted in form of pull requests for repository https://github.com/hughsie/colord