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> it doesn't support wide gamut color

That's wrong, you declare this with an ICC profile, done.

Lossy WebP has an important limitation in being YUV 4:2:0. And it's strictly 8-bit. That is the actual reason it doesn't replace JPEG, which is rarely even implemented to a greater extent.

Lossless WebP replaces GIF. Despite much better compression, it doesn't replace PNG, which supports 16 bits, and has stronger metadata support.


WebP is limited to 8 bits per pixel, a total of 16,777,216 colors; adding a ICC profile doesn’t change that.

JPEG XL and the other modern formats can support at least 10-bits per pixel, that's over a billion colors.

AVIF supports 12-bits per pixel; JPEG XL [1] can support up to 32-bits per pixel.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_graphics_file_fo...


When you familiarise yourself with macOS, you arrive at the conclusion that GNOME is indeed not a cheap copy of Mac, it is something worse: a miserable attempt at copying its ideas. There are many examples, but from the top of my head and clicking around:

- Window title bars - Menu bars: removed while copying macOS, but no global menu either. If only it was like macOS! - Symbolic icon craze - Autohiding a context menu after 0.5 seconds of holding the button (since GTK 3) - The top right area in GNOME's Hell - The "Apps" view in GNOME's Hell, which also has a Dock wannabe - Nautilus is basically Finder - Nowadays animations that you can't turn off

Most of the damage to GNOME has been done in version 3. I've converted away from anything GTK 4 because I can't stand it anymore.

Though I admit that it's cohesive and if you expect very little, it kind of works. Also there's probably nothing better for touch screens.


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