KDE Plasma Wayland and HDR

Just a quick report on using KDE Plasma Wayland and HDR.

So I use Archlinux and here’s my neofetch:

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I’m using a BenQ SW270C monitor, and when I switch to HDR mode, the monitor also switches to HDR mode and the BT.2020 color gamut (which is correct for HDR10). To be honest, it doesn’t look that good so I generally switch it to Color Profile None and put the monitor in AdobeRGB mode (which is calibrated in XFCE). I’ll try calibrating it, but I’m not sure that that is possible under Wayland at present. I also have XFCE4 installed, and color calibration while using X works fine with that (even in 10 bpc mode) so I do have a basis for comparison.

If you can export an ICC profile, you can provide it to Screen configuration.

Yeah, I tried doing that except that when I try to use colormgr, the monitor is not one of the devices listed, and on the Display Configuration GUI, once HDR is selected, the Color Profile drop down box greys out, cannot be used. As far as I know this is normal behavior, but I’m not sure why. Is the HDR data stream so different that one cannot apply an ICC and have it work yet?