Colour management on Wayland/KDE

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

With next digiKam 8.8.0, monitor color profile can be used in color
management under Windows, macOS, and Wayland. See this report for
details:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436526

Best regards

Giles Caulier

Le mar. 12 août 2025 à 08:39, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> The Wayland support is not implemented yet in the digiKam color
> management wrapper. Only the X11 support is present.
> This last one must work as expected is the Wayland/X11 interface is
> installed in your computer.
>
> Code relevant is here :
>
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/blob/master/core/libs/dimg/filters/icc/iccsettings_p_desktop.cpp?ref_type=heads#L51
>
> Best regards
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le lun. 11 août 2025 à 22:47, Milan Zamazal <pdm at zamazal.org> a écrit :
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to enable colour management on Wayland in KDE 6.3 from Debian
> > 13, with digiKam 8.7 running from the appimage.  When I set a system
> > monitor profile in KDE settings, Darktable, Firefox and Brave display
> > the same colours.  But I cannot find a setting in digiKam to use the
> > system colour profile.  I can see “Built-in display” profile, whatever
> > it is, in the monitor profile selector; when I try to use it, colours in
> > digiKam are somewhat different (and apparently wrong) from the other
> > applications.
> >
> > Is there a way to use a KDE/Wayland system monitor profile in digiKam?
> > If yes, how to set it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Milan
> >