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Re:Window System X (1984) by magicalhippo on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:55AM (#29980976)
> But more asking than telling, why wouldn’t defaulting to sRGB for unlabeled buffers work?

If Wayland is to do color management, that's a reasonable approach. Doesn't work at all if the client is supposed to do it.

But are you sure Wayland uses sRGB now? I couldn't find any information regarding the implicit color space currently used by Wayland...

> but if they didn’t bother with it than they likely are okay with whatever is the default

Not like they had a choice now is it?

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Re:Window System X (1984) by kaba0 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:34PM (#29982615)
I don’t think it has any implicit color space in use right now, I mentioned/asked for confirmation whether this approach could work.
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Re:Window System X (1984) by magicalhippo on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:03PM (#29985769)
Yeah it's the best approach given the current state, and that seems to be what they're going for in the MR.

However you're still in a bit of a mess due to lack of an explicitly documented implicit color space. And it's still a bit of a footgun for developers who don't know they need to care about this.

It's a bit like XML files without the encoding attribute. Except for text you can try to analyze the bytes and find a likely encoding, no such thing for pixel data.

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