tried again, and yeah display settings was where i first tried, and no, ‘none’, ‘icc’ with multiple diff profiles, and ‘built-in’ all change absolutely nothing but the keep changes popup shows up like it worked fine; no errors or anything. then i went into trying with colord and colormgr cli commands like i said before. it does see my monitor under display and resolution and whatnot are correct and do change, just not the color profile.
everything works as it should under x11 session.
regardless, the whole point of my og comment was color management protocol isn’t only hdr stuff. even in the significant issues page for kde it says color management and HDR protocol in the bullet point about programs that need accurate color profiling.
bret is nyt’s go-to cryptofascist. he’s always got these bootlicking propaganda pieces.