Color management/HDR protocol just got finalized - Wayland
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.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/14Open linkView original on lemm.ee
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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
HDR means better contrast and colors if your monitor supports it.
The news in the OP specifically mean that the protocol is finalized, but you still have to wait for it to get implemented.
Kde plasma (wayland) already has an HDR checkbox and i have it enabled.
Is it not really working yet?
KDE and Hyprland have it already apparently, as well as the embedded gamescope session. It still needs to be implemented by apps/games as well, though. According to this mpv and games running on recent Proton versions have HDR support.
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?