In my last post about HDR and color management I explained roughly how color management works, what we’re doing to make it work on Wayland and how far along we were with that in Plasma. That’s more than half a year ago now, so let’s take a look at what changed since then!

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Updates have been made to color management in KWin, including support for ICC profiles and static HDR metadata signaling. However, limitations still exist for applications in terms of colorspaces. Xwayland apps are restricted to sRGB and cannot utilize ICC profiles.

An update on HDR and color management in KWin