Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR.

Wayland Protocols 1.46 brigns a new appendix and clarifications for the color-management-v1 protocol. A missing protocol error for color-representation-v1 is also added.

The experimental additions are for expanding on the existing text-input and input-method protocols. This experimental text-input protocol is text-input-unstable-v3. Dorota Czaplejewicz started it based on the existing text-input protocol with a goal of improving this protocol. Dorota is being funded by NLNet support.

Similarly, the new xx-input-method-v2 protocol is being worked on by Dorota and so far includes a new popup interface based on XDG-Popup. The existing popup interface of input-method (stable) was deemed "limited and inadequate for actual use."

Besides the refinements to the color management protocol and the new experimental work happening, Wayland Protocols 1.46 is a fairly small release. Details for those interested via the [1]mailing list announcement .



[1] https://lore.freedesktop.org/wayland-devel/AzTKh6JewwfUBFKaOS86DT4obISpv5b5bjFghXGwYrMPyk6Wxpz6H4_trRcEOyF9VpVV-0p1-UTNv7_esjO6ppw5SyIyGxWB8R5xI_SJYfA=@emersion.fr/T/#u