[Development] Color Profile support on Qt

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Monday 16 July 2012 Jul, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> All QPainter operations (at least in the raster engine) assume a linear color 
> space. That means that the color conversion need to hapen last, right before 
> being shown to the screen. After all kind of blending operations or anything 
> done with QPainter.  (That means it could even been done in the platform 
> plugin)

Are you really sure about that? It's extremely unlikely that one encounters a linear light rgb png file in the wild, for instance, most assume sRGB. Unmanaged RGB isn't automatically linear, either -- it most likely is just a mess.

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