[HN Gopher] Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Be Close to ...
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Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Be Close to Merging
Author : voxadam
Score : 17 points
Date : 2024-11-30 21:06 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| formerly_proven wrote:
| In one way this is very good because it adopts a sane model for
| color management (unlike X11 and Windows).
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| In another way it's pretty weird that Wayland, designed in the
| late 2000s, made no provisions for something other than 8-bit and
| "presume sRGB".
| cyberax wrote:
| It's more like Wayland itself doesn't care much about what
| surfaces contain. The new protocol allows Wayland apps to
| communicate the information about color spaces and to request
| color transformations.
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| Arguably, this should have been added from the start. On the
| other hand, HDR displays were basically non-existent in 2000-s.
| It's unlikely that developers could have gotten everything
| right without ever testing the protocols.
| orbital-decay wrote:
| Color management is not just for HDR displays. It's one of
| the reasons creatives always leaned toward Macs - system-wide
| color management has been a thing for ages there.
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| Wayland wasn't initially designed with it in mind because
| they haven't consulted their supposed userbase for their use
| cases, instead focusing on a narrow problem space that was
| understandable for them personally.
| Avamander wrote:
| Maybe not HDR displays, but we had plenty that had lower bit-
| depths. Windows 11 still supports dithering even. It
| basically works in both directions if you want any chance of
| having a resemblance of accurate color reproduction.
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