KDE Begins Laying The Groundwork For HDR Support, Wayland Color Management

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Begins Laying The Groundwork For HDR Support, Wayland Color Management

As covered a few days ago on Phoronix, there's been early progress on HDR display support for the KDE desktop among other highlights this week...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-HDR-This-Week

[rob-tech]

KDE Wayland without colour management is essentially useless in my case, glad this is getting fixed, however, as such a critical feature it should have been addressed earlier.

[Termy]

KDE Wayland without colour management is essentially useless in my case, glad this is getting fixed, however, as such a critical feature it should have been addressed earlier.

yeah, the missing gamma setting is basically my last point that prevents switching to wayland (at least from short testing now and then, of course there might be other point that pop up as a daily driver).

But finally getting HDR on Linux is nice

[AndyChow]

There needs to be an alternative to Wayland. Wayland is too big and too impossible to do anything useful at this point. We need a new paradigm to handle displays.

[SSJBurger]

There needs to be an alternative to Wayland. Wayland is too big and too impossible to do anything useful at this point. We need a new paradigm to handle displays.

We shall call it xmirland.

[smitty3268]

There needs to be an alternative to Wayland. Wayland is too big and too impossible to do anything useful at this point. We need a new paradigm to handle displays.

Too big? It's incredibly tiny, which is the main complaint many people have. Not sure what you mean by that.

[NeoMorpheus]

KDE Wayland without colour management is essentially useless in my case, glad this is getting fixed, however, as such a critical feature it should have been addressed earlier.

Is this why Adobe doesnt bother in releasing anything on Linux?

Or as conspiracy theorists say, they dont do it because both Apple and MS pay them under the table of course, to continue ignoring Linux?

[osw89]

There needs to be an alternative to Wayland. Wayland is too big and too impossible to do anything useful at this point. We need a new paradigm to handle displays.

Yes yet another solution will surely fix the problem this time

[patrick1946]

Is this why Adobe doesnt bother in releasing anything on Linux?

Or as conspiracy theorists say, they dont do it because both Apple and MS pay them under the table of course, to continue ignoring Linux?

Money? 😏

[skeevy420]

Is this why Adobe doesnt bother in releasing anything on Linux?

Or as conspiracy theorists say, they dont do it because both Apple and MS pay them under the table of course, to continue ignoring Linux?

It probably doesn't help any. That is a feature that Adobe requires because it's professional-grade software. If you're a Professional User you have to ensure what's on your monitor will look the same as what's being sent to a printer. You don't want to tweak a portrait in Photoshop or Lightroom for an hour only to have blue eyes come out green and the skin to look like jaundice and liver failure.

Apple editions of any software basically proves a company has multi-OS and cross-architecture figured out so ignoring Linux comes down to either Linux technical limitations or them not seeing enough money in Linux users. It's probably a bit of both, so a Linux desktop environment trying to solve one one of Adobe's issues can't hurt.