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:

• dbus-devel
• libxslt
• docbook5-style-xsl
• gettext
• glib2-devel
• gobject-introspection-devel
• gtk-doc
• lcms2-devel
• libgudev1-devel
• libgusb-devel
• polkit-devel
• sqlite-devel
• systemd-devel
• vala-tools

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