darktable-cmstest reports different profiles for X atom and colord

[Donatzsky (Nis Donatzsky)]

@bogardon

though I wonder why I had to do that in the first place since that profile is already set in Gnome’s color settings.

As I understand it, Gnome under Wayland has only very basic color management. And KDE is not much better currently. Other compositors probably don’t have any color management at all. This is because the Wayland protocols needed are not finished, and have only just begun the process of being implemented. If you need color management and have a monitor with anything other than sRGB coverage, you have to use X11 for now.

You can read more in this thread:

Wayland color management

[Linux color handling and management by Sebastian Wick] Check this talk out, it is an interesting talk by a wayland dev. In my opinion most important points from this talk that wayland proponents and fans who say we should use it today right now need to understand is : Colour profiling and calibration is not ready right now. All or most apps are now in legacy mode which is sRGB only Also listen to the very first sentence they say - " the end goal is getting HDR in wayland but ge…

Comment by KWin dev:

Wayland color management

Hi all, KWin developer here. This is quite the long thread… Let me add even more! The color management protocol is IMO pretty close to being in a state where it can be merged; my goal is to finally get it merged in the next few months and ship it in Plasma 6.2. If there’s anyone in here that’s interested in pushing it forward, we already have two compositors implementing it, but if you implement it for any application that does color management, it would help a lot. For testing app side impleme…