Wayland color management

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 getting HDR means getting colour management right"

So when I earlier said that we were lucky that colour management and HDR have common things, otherwise we would be left behind without a thought, is this point. Their main target is HDR for gaming and multimedia, it is where the funding comes from and not print design or digital artists etc.

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