Mir 2.3.2 Released With Better XWayland HiDPI, Copy/Paste Between Wayland/XWayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mir 2.3.2 Released With Better XWayland HiDPI, Copy/Paste Between Wayland/XWayland

Mir, Canonical's Wayland compositor designed for various Ubuntu-focused use-cases for easily constructing new shells, is out with a new point release that packs a fair amount of improvements as well as fixes...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-2.3.2-Released

[royce]

Canonical hate shitfest in 3, 2, 1...

[Aryma]

HDR and better 10bit support when ?

[aronwolf]

I think that Gnome and KDE should switch to MIR in the future. The reason ist, that I think it is a waste of resources to reimplement Wayland again and again.

With this, I don't mean that Gnome developer should not develop on a Wayland compositor. What I mean that they should collaborate in some way with other developers like the KDE developers. One way would be to use MIR.

[r_a_trip]

It's good to see Mir developing nicely after its "demise". The only thing that is unfortunate, is that it didn't start out as a Wayland compositor from the start. Canonical had a shot here to create a defacto common Wayland base, on which all other DEs/WMs could have been built. Then again, not being Wayland and the possibility of proprietary licensing probably seemed very promising at the time.

[kon14]

I think that Gnome and KDE should switch to MIR in the future. The reason ist, that I think it is a waste of resources to reimplement Wayland again and again.

With this, I don't mean that Gnome developer should not develop on a Wayland compositor. What I mean that they should collaborate in some way with other developers like the KDE developers. One way would be to use MIR.

Gnome and Sway (wlroots) are the most stable and feature complete Wayland compositors out there and together with KDE they make up the vast majority of Wayland users.
Why should they ever switch to Mir and not the other way around?

[Aryma]

choose one :

1. stable
2. gnome

[AndyChow]

copy/paste? Wow, I didn't think we'd see that this decade.

[aronwolf]

Gnome and Sway (wlroots) are the most stable and feature complete Wayland compositors out there and together with KDE they make up the vast majority of Wayland users.
Why should they ever switch to Mir and not the other way around?

Ok. Probably you are right. What I do not like is that the Gnome compositor is too coupled to their code, so it can not be used in other Projects. Because Gnome and KDE have a deep coupling to the rest of the code, every project has te reimplement it.

Is there any big advantage to couple it so deep to their code?

[Mez']

Gnome and Sway (wlroots) are the most stable and feature complete Wayland compositors out there and together with KDE they make up the vast majority of Wayland users.
Why should they ever switch to Mir and not the other way around?

What would be nice is if the compositor was decoupled from the DE.
Then I would gladly use Gnome with a different compositor than Mutter.