Someone, please, standardize gamma

This an open complaint to every PC maker on the planet: get over it already.

I know that there are historical reasons for this nonsense. Decisions had to be made decades ago, and the mess of RGB, VGA, sVGA, etc. complicated things. Plotting RBG values in a VGA space is difficult, and people don’t agree on the best place to make compromises. blah, blah, blah.

This is 2007. This should just work. This is software problem, not a harware problem, so lets just agree on the defaults and get on with it. The is no longer any valid reson that if I edit a picture on a PC, it should look differnt when someone viws it on a Mac or Linux box, or vice versa. There is certainly no reason that it should look substantially different on two machines plugged into the the same monitor.

If the industry can agree on standardized cross-platform serial, parallel, RAM, and video busses, it can agree on a standardized value for one single-precision float.

I know, I know. I can adjust the gamma to suit my fancy. I can embed sRGB profiles in most image types.

But I shouldn’t have to.