• GNOME 50 Merges “sdr-native” Color Mode Support For Wide Color Gamut Displays As a late stage change for GNOME 50 ahead of its official debut next month and following last week’s GNOME 50 beta is plumbing the Mutter compositor for a new “sdr-native” color mode option. • Prominent Linux graphics-related developer Michel Dänzer of Red Hat implemented this sdr-native color mode that managed to land in time for GNOME 50. • This sdr-native color mode is an alternative to the default and BT2100 modes currently available. • Michel explained in the Mutter pull request: Enabling this mode with the latest GNOME 50 Mutter Git code requires using gdctl –color-mode sdr-native. • At least for the GNOME 50 release it doesn’t look like the integration will extend beyond that and as noted does require the monitor to expose all the necessary EDID information to enjoy this new color mode for making full use of wide color gamut diplays. • A nice albeit late addition for GNOME 50.
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