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authorSimon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>2024-03-06 11:19:09 +0100
committerSimon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>2024-03-12 13:04:51 +0000
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parentconnection: use enum wl_arg_type in wl_message_count_arrays() (diff)
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protocol: document that color channels provide electrical values
Expand the work done in [1] to document that all channels store electrical values. See the discussion in [2]. [1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/merge_requests/316 [2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/merge_requests/250#note_2311377 Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
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diff --git a/protocol/wayland.xml b/protocol/wayland.xml
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+++ b/protocol/wayland.xml
@@ -479,8 +479,10 @@
client provides and updates the contents is defined by the buffer factory
interface.
- If the buffer uses a format that has an alpha channel, the alpha channel
- is assumed to be premultiplied in the electrical color channel values
+ Color channels are assumed to be electrical rather than optical (in other
+ words, encoded with a transfer function) unless otherwise specified. If
+ the buffer uses a format that has an alpha channel, the alpha channel is
+ assumed to be premultiplied into the electrical color channel values
(after transfer function encoding) unless otherwise specified.
Note, because wl_buffer objects are created from multiple independent