The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux desktops for enjoying a better creative experience on HDR (High Dynamic Range) displays.
Dmitry Kazakov on Friday opened a merge request for enabling Wayland color management support within the Krita application. Besides needing to land this set of five patches, the KRITA_USE_NATIVE_CANVAS_SURFACE=1 and QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland environment variables must also be set for this color management / HDR support. This also only works under Wayland and not with the X.Org desktop sessions.
Kazakov remarked in the merge request:
“Krita will use wayland and the canvas will be switched into a separate surface mode, which is let it use its own color management mode. Right now Krita unconditionally uses Wayland’s “preferred” color space. We still need to implement proper GUI for more fine-grained control for that (and for the feedback to the user).”
More details for those interested within this merge request.
