Color management/HDR protocol just got finalized - Wayland
staging: add color management protocol (!14) · Merge requests · wayland / wayland-protocols · GitLab
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53432328
KDE, Gnome, Gamescope and now Wlroots already have a working implementation of the protocol. 2025 Year of the Linux Desktop.
don't count your chickens yet. this merge request is nearly 5 years old
Yeah but it was just updated a few hours ago.
Yeah, it was being worked on for 5 years, now it's done.
Pog
Wut mean from basic Linux enjoyer perspective?
TL;DR: More colors.
Though that is a gross oversimplification of it.
finally, maybe HDR content will eventually be playable directly on Jellyfin or Firefox soon
Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't even support HDR on Windows
will I still have to run games in gamescope with environment variables and flags for them to show the hdr settings?