Re: "RGB" in color.el

[Julien Danjou]

On Fri, Nov 26 2010, Miles Bader wrote:

> I think the comments in color.el should be a bit more specific about the
> term "RGB", since that's ambiguous (e.g., in `color-xyz->rgb', the
> comment just says "Converts CIE X Y Z colors to RGB.").
>
> From the code it's pretty clear that what's really meant is "sRGB" so
> maybe that term could just be substituted.

You are right.
I've fixed that, but feel free to come with something even better.

> Incidentally, that brings to mind the question: are color numbers in
> Emacs generally taken to refer to sRGB?  Is there any mechanism in X to
> know...?

It seems it's not sRGB, but just RGB with no color space.

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Julien Danjou
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