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

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Thu Dec 22 03:44:24 UTC 2016


On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Carsten Haitzler <raster at rasterman.com> wrote:
> 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.

Aha OK. And how does Weston fit into it? Do any of them directly
leverage Weston or is it just a reference to get Wayland support
included?

-- 
Chris Murphy


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