KDENov 26

#Plasma is going all #Wayland

After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on #X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive.

Read the FAQ below to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/

Show threadclerian
@kde Does this mean that we will have full colour management support with wayland by then? There are some efforts and kde is really far ahead with this, but limited by wayland itself which is really bad at the moment... actually unusable...
Nov 26 at 5:57pmWeb
Show threadjust a blåhajNov 26
@clerian @kde what do you mean "full colour management"?
Show threadCameron BoschNov 26
@a_blahaj @clerian Didn't X11 not have good color management or HDR support to begin with?
Show threadjust a blåhajNov 26
@cameron_bosch @clerian Wayland ALSO has HDR support.
Show threadclerianNov 26
@cameron_bosch @a_blahaj X11 does support colour management - e.g. different input/output and working profiles for different applications + multi screen setups. This is really difficult to do in wayland - compare https://discuss.pixls.us/t/wayland-color-management/10804 for more details. This is not about HDR.
Wayland color management

Just saw the following on the wayland developers mailinglist HDR support in Wayland/Weston and that reminded me that I always wanted to make a topic here to discuss color management on wayland, especially since the proposal from the wayland devs itself[1] is lacking in a few aspects, namely It is missing profiling/calibrating support which in contrast to what the wayland dev thinks is not an orthogonal problem (IMHO) Not all applications actually use ICC (anything that uses OCIO for example) s...

discuss.pixls.us
Show threadNeal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) Nov 26
@clerian @kde It's already done and fully implemented in KDE Plasma. Applications have just started to use it.