GNOME Color Manager

GNOME Color Manager is an open source session framework designed especially for the GNOME desktop environment, making it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles for attached LCD panels.

Being extremely easy-to-use and because color accuracy is very important for those who take photos, scan documents or print images seriously, the application allows users to generate color profiles using a hardware colorimeter device or install them from a comprehensive database.

It is part of the GNOME Control Center app

The project is not a standalone application, as it is bundled with the GNOME Control Center software on top of a fresh installation of the GNOME desktop environment, available on various Linux distributions.

However, it is distributed as a source archive, allowing advanced users to configure, compile and install it under any Linux-based operating system, as long as all the requirements are met. It can be accessed from the Hardware section of the GNOME Control Center app.

Getting started with GNOME Color Manager

When users click the “Color” entry on the Settings application of the GNOME desktop, they will be able to see a list with all the attached devices, such as LCD monitors. By default, the program will automatically install color profiles for these devices.

If a device does not have a color profile, it is a must to add one. You can use the Add Profile button on the main window to select an existing color profile or import one using the standard .icc file distributed with your device.

In addition, users can set a color profile as default for all users, remove it, or view detailed information, such as type, colorspace, version, manufacturer, model, display correction, white point, CIE 1931, 3D gamut, TRC, metadata, and sRGB.

Bottom line

The truth is that having an integrated color manager into the GNOME Control Center application, makes the GNOME desktop environment a powerful and unbeatable open source project for any Linux-based operating system.

What is new in this release:

• This release updates translations.

What is new in version :

• This release updates translations.

What is new in version 3.24.0:

• This release updates translations.

What is new in version 3.22.2:

• This release updates translations.

What is new in version 3.22.1:

• This release updates translations.

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• This is the first stable release for GNOME 3.22 and updates several translations.

What is new in version 3.20.0 / 3.22.0 Beta 2:

• This release only updates translations.

What is new in version 3.18 Beta 1:

• This release only updates translations.

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• This release only updates translations.

What is new in version 3.14.2 / 3.16.0 Beta 1:

• This release switches the profile viewer application to use a headerbar to match other GNOME3 applications.

What is new in version 3.15.4:

• Bugfix:
• Remove NoDisplay=true from the gcm-viewer desktop file (Richard Hughes)
• Translations
• Update Catalan help translation (Manel Vidal)
• Updated Basque language (Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio)
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (Rafael Ferreira)
• Updated German translation (Bernd Homuth)
• Updated Hungarian translation (BalAzs Asr)
• Updated Indonesian translation (Andika Triwidada)
• Updated Russian translation (Stas Solovey)
• Updated Spanish translation (Daniel Mustieles)
• Updated Vietnamese translation (Traº§n Nga"c QuA¢n)

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• Translations: Updated Kazakh translation (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Bugfix:
• Prevent a crash when profiling a printer (Richard Hughes)
• Translations:
• Added Friulian translation
• Updated Bengali (India) translation
• Updated Korean translation
• Updated Telugu translation
• Updates Persian translation

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Translations:
• Added Nepali translation
• Updated Bengali (India) translation
• Updated Finnish translation
• Updated Gujarati translation
• Updated Hindi translation
• Updated Kannada translation
• Updated Korean translation
• Updated Marathi translation
• Updated Nepali translation
• Updated Oriya translation
• Updated Serbian translation
• Updated Tamil translation

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

• Translations
• Added Hungarian translation (BalAzs Asr)
• Updated Catalan (Valencian) translation (Carles Ferrando)
• Updated Finnish help translation (Sami Jaktholm)
• Updated Greek translation (Tom Tryfonidis)
• Updated Norwegian bokmA¥l translation (Kjartan Maraas)
• Updated Romanian Translation (Daniel ȘerbAƒnescu)
• Updated Swedish translation (Mattias Eriksson)
• Updated Turkish translation (Muhammet Kara)
• New Features:
• Roughly shape test window to instrument (extra clearance) (Pascal de Bruijn)
• Use APPSTREAM_XML to validate AppData from libappstream-glib (Richard Hughes)
• Bugfix:
• Add to the AppData file (Richard Hughes)
• Coherent display kind enum ordering (Pascal de Bruijn)
• Do not lock every time we sample in gcm-picker (Richard Hughes)
• Port to vte-2.91 API (Debarshi Ray)

What is new in version 3.12.2:

• Translations:
• Updated Catalan (Valencian) translation (Carles Ferrando)
• Updated Dutch translation (Erwin Poeze)
• Updated Indonesian translation (Dirgita)

What is new in version 3.12.1:

• Translations
• Updated Japanese translation (Ikuya Awashiro, Jiro Matsuzawa)
• Bugfixes:
• Actually show the gcm-viewer preview when changing profiles (Richard Hughes)
• Fix several critical warnings when using gcm-viewer (Richard Hughes)
• Speed up deleting profiles by an order of magnitude (Richard Hughes)

What is new in version 3.12.0:

• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.11.5:

• Translations:
• Update Chinese simplified translation (Tong Hui)
• Updated Assamese translation (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (Enrico Nicoletto)
• Updated Galician translation (Fran DiAguez)
• Updated German translation (Benjamin Steinwender)
• Updated Greek translation (Dimitris Spingos)
• Updated Hebrew translation (Yosef Or Boczko)
• Updated Italian translation (Milo Casagrande)
• Updated Lithuanian translation (Aurimas AŒernius)
• Updated Norwegian bokmA¥l translation (Kjartan Maraas)
• Updated Spanish translation (Daniel Mustieles)
• Updated Tajik translation (Victor Ibragimov)
• Updated Traditional Chinese translation (Cheng-Chia Tseng)
• Bugfix:
• Fix a potential crash if dispcal started giving unexpected data (Richard Hughes)
• Prevent a crash in gcm-viewer when the ICC profile cannot be loaded (Richard Hughes)

What is new in version 3.8.4:

• Translations:
• Updated Russian translation (Julia Dronova)
• Updated Finnish translation (Lasse Liehu)
• Updated Japanese translation (victory)
• Bugfix:
• Correct the approximate timings in the calibration dialog (Pascal de Bruijn)
• Generate display profiles with a perceptual rendering intent (Pascal de Bruijn)
• Make it work with dispcal using stderr (Patryk Zawadzki)

What is new in version 3.10.1:

• Translations
• Updated Catalan (Valencian) translation (Carles Ferrando)
• Updated Persian translations (Arash Mousavi)
• Updated Traditional Chinese translation (Cheng-Chia Tseng)
• New Features:
• Use the new AppData screenshots (Richard Hughes)
• Bugfix:
• Fix grammar in the AppData description (Piotr DrA...g)

What is new in version 3.8.2:

• Translations
• Updated Norwegian bokmal translation (Kjartan Maraas)
• Updated Russian translation (Yuri Myasoedov)
• Bugfix:
• gcm_calibrate_is_livecd() should be linux-only (Antoine Jacoutot)
• Use g_ascii_dtostr() to avoid writing locale-specific floats (Richard Hughes)

What is new in version 3.8.1:

• Translations:
• Updated British English translation (Bruce Cowan)
• Updated Norwegian bokmA¥l translation (Kjartan Maraas)
• Updated uk translation (Daniel Korostil)
• Updated Uyghur translation (Gheyret Kenji)
• Bugfix:
• Make wrapping sensible when showing details about profiles (Richard Hughes)

What is new in version 3.8.0:

• Translations
• Added Tadjik translation (Victor Ibragimov)
• Updated Basque language (Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio)
• Updated Finnish translation (Jiri GrA¶nroos)
• Updated French translation (Alexandre Franke)
• Updated Hindi translation (Rajesh Ranjan)
• Updated Hungarian translation (Gabor Kelemen)
• Updated Indonesian translation (Andika Triwidada)
• Updated Malayalam Translation (Ani Peter)
• Updated Marathi Translations (Sandeep Sheshrao Shedmake)
• Updated Odia Language (ManojKumar Giri)
• Updated Persian Translation (Arash Mousavi)
• Updated Tamil translation (Dr.T.Vasudevan)
• Updated Telugu Translations (Krishnababu Krothapalli)

What is new in version 3.7.92:

• Translations:
• Added Czech translation (Marek AŒernockA½)
• Added Turkish translation (Volkan YalA§A±n)
• Updated Assamese translation (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (Enrico Nicoletto, Rafael Ferreira)
• Updated Catalan translation (Gil Forcada)
• Updated Catalan (Valencian) translation (Carles Ferrando)
• Updated Czech translation (Milan KnAA¾ek)
• Updated Danish translation (Ask H. Larsen)
• Updated Estonian translation (Mattias PAµldaru)
• Updated Galician translation (Fran DiAguez)
• Updated German translation (Mario BlA¤ttermann)
• Updated Greek translation (Dimitris Spingos)
• Updated Gujarati translation (Sweta Kothari)
• Updated Italian translation (Milo Casagrande)
• Updated Korean translation (Shankar Prasad, Changwoo Ryu)
• Updated Latvian translation (RA"dolfs Mazurs)
• Updated Lithuanian translation (Aurimas AŒernius)
• Updated Malayalam translation (Anish A)
• Updated Norwegian bokmA¥l translation (Kjartan Maraas)
• Updated Polish translation (Piotr DrA...g)
• Updated Portuguese translation (AntA³nio Lima)
• Updated Punjabi translation (A S Alam)