I have continued working on color correction support in KWin. Last week we had the first results that have visible effects on how things look, but of course, at the moment, this is rather about color incorrection than correction. Now, it is possible to accelerate development and move on to other areas.
To make CC possible, KWin’s shaders needed to be altered. More specifically, the fragment shaders. In order to do this, their source code is intercepted before sending to the graphics card for compilation, and a couple of lines are inserted in the appropriate places. There is a special algorithm for parsing the sources, and if it finds anything fishy, it abandons making any changes to the shader source. However, it should be robust enough to handle any valid GLSL 1.2 fragment shader thrown at it.
There are no big modifications to KWin’s rendering process. The only ones are the painting split for multiple screens inside SceneOpenGL::Window::performPaint(), mentioned in the previous posts.
The code related to CC will be organized in a separate class, and enabling or disabling it will be possible at compile time, and on runtime (from one of KWin’s KCM). Now I am working on refurbishing these latest modifications and making the enabling and disabling possible.
Soon work will start on the KDED module (color server) that should do most of the hard work involved with CC.
