Hackernews will tell us that we should really be using Wayland, because Wayland will solve the color problem once and for all.
When it comes time to implement the color management stuff into Wayland, it's declared out of scope for the core Wayland protocol, but don't worry guys -- someday, somehow, a consortium led by GNOME will implement it on a DBUS interface that all compositors will understand. At least two, mutually incompatible, such protocols emerge, neither of which fix the underlying issues, both of which are tied to particular compositors.
Meanwhile, we are told that X11 is still horribly, irredeemably broken in this regard and if we haven't yet switched to Wayland, we really should by now.
The professional colorist industry goes on using Xorg on Linux.
When it comes time to implement the color management stuff into Wayland, it's declared out of scope for the core Wayland protocol, but don't worry guys -- someday, somehow, a consortium led by GNOME will implement it on a DBUS interface that all compositors will understand. At least two, mutually incompatible, such protocols emerge, neither of which fix the underlying issues, both of which are tied to particular compositors.
Meanwhile, we are told that X11 is still horribly, irredeemably broken in this regard and if we haven't yet switched to Wayland, we really should by now.
The professional colorist industry goes on using Xorg on Linux.