[RFC wayland-protocols] Add the color-management protocol

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Thu Dec 22 00:49:08 UTC 2016


On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:24:33 -0700 Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> said:

> So...
> 
> Do applications (wayland clients) choose what compositor to use? Each
> application could be using a different compositor?
> 
> Does it make any sense that there'd be three different classes of
> compositor: no-color management, assume sRGB color management, and
> full color management (all objects are explicitly tagged and the
> compositor is doing display compensation with the help of e.g. lcms)?
> Or am I missing something about compositors?

your choice of wm or desktop chooses your compositor. choose gnome? it'll be
mutter. choose enlightenment? it'll be enlightenment. choose kde? it'll be kwin
etc. etc. etc.

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