I was checking out the feature list of the upcoming version of Fedora (Fedora 13 – Goddard) and my jaw dropped as soon as I reached the sixth line.
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Name: ColorManagement
Description: GNOME Color Manager is a session framework that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles in the GNOME desktop.
This is big news for Linux photography. At last, the first steps towards system wide, OS based color management are being implemented. This is a luxury that Windows and Mac users have been enjoying for years. I expect that a system wide CMS and true 16bit color support in Gimp will allow Linux photography to take off. When this reaches a certain maturity level it has the potential to change the way photographers work (professionals included) and shake the waters in the digital photography market.
According to gnome.org , GNOME Color Manager will be soon bundled with some distributions.
http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager
