Color management/HDR protocol just got finalized - Wayland

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/14

KDE, Gnome, Gamescope and now Wlroots already have a working implementation of the protocol.

2025 Year of the Linux Desktop.

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communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 29 pts · 1y (3 replies)

2025 Year of the Linux Desktop.

Not so fast, we still need a complete accessibility protocol on wayland, and wine/proton need to be running wayland natively.

Then we've really won.

(also we need to get enough users that anticheating linux stops)

semperverus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Did you miss it? Wine already has wayland support

communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 8 pts · 1y

Not enabled by default for good reasons.

warmaster@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Don't forget about all these color management stuff being baked into gimp, Krista and Inkscape.

dabati8@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I wonder how the gnome devs are gonna refuse this

tekato@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

By implementing it in mutter

dabati8@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

After they "discuss" for a couple of years

_carmin@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

It's already implemented in Gnome, it's being an optional option to enable it

toastal@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y

I have waited so, so long. Recently color profile support (ICC) was merged & upstreamed to many repos so I finally reswitched back to Wayland since my colors are no longer broken on my displays.

Lojcs@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

Weston implementation seems still in progress:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/issues/467

Anyways, proton 10 when