Distributions quotes of the week

Posted May 19, 2023 8:18 UTC (Fri) by gwg (guest, #20811)
Parent article: Distributions quotes of the week

Wayland doesn't support color management, and won't for the foreseeable future.

Lack of an X11 display option makes a distro a non-starter for anyone needing
accurate display color, i.e. photography, desktop publishing etc.

Distributions quotes of the week

Posted May 19, 2023 12:53 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Wayland doesn't support color management, and won't for the foreseeable future.

Wayland has supported basic "color management" for many years -- As I type this, all of my various GNOME desktops have per-display calibrations applied, all of which were generated using the GNOME tooling under Wayland.

What Wayland lacks currently is the ability of specific clients/applications to specify their working colorspace and HDR capabilities and have the compositor automagically handle everything, but that's not a regression -- X11/X.org requires individual applications to handle all of this manually anyway. and most don't.

Here is the current documentation that shows the state of affairs (including how X11 and Wayland handle color management) and what is being worked on for Wayland:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq/color-and-hdr

They're trying very hard to make sure they get this right before they deply anything.