Canonical Announces Mir Back-End For Mainline Mesa

[Pawlerson]

Plus.. Who knows if native Mir stuff is going to be compatible with X11 and wayland... Stuff like steam for Ubuntu may not run on anything but Ubuntu in the future

This is what I tried to explain to some gnome fanboys. If gnome wasn't be such broken mess it would have a chance to compete with Ubuntu and Unity. There's KDE that's doing very well, but it probably doesn't have enough corporal backend to encourage blob makers to support Wayland. Gnome has to be stronger to compete and show Wayland is the way.

[Pawlerson]

That is a silly rationale, that you have. If Canonical actually worked with upstream and wrote code that was *worthwhile*, not poorly written hacks - they could've been upstreaming code and working with upstream developers to meet their goals. But instead, generally, Canonical just pisses on other people's work are low-contributors (if at all), yet claim credit for so much that happens in FOSS projects from with they rely on, rather than practicing what they preach; FOSS, community, etc.

There's no way gnome devs would accept patches that make it usable and this is probably one of the reasons why Canonical suffers from NIH syndrome (exactly like gnome).

[Siekacz]

People here does not understand one big thing: conflict of interests and goals. If GNOME wants some design and Canonical wants different design then they simply cannot work on the same project. The same thing with Wayland - constant patching to make it usable in Ubuntu would be a huge waste of time. Porting changes(like reusing Android drivers) to newer versions would be pretty painful and sluggish. Just like overlay scrollbars, appmenu and various other things. If you need to change core functionality then your code won't be accepted by upstream. And you end up with ugly, patched code and partly implemented design. And that's what Unity is today. If they want robust, stable, efficient and beautiful desktop, they need to "reinvent the wheel". Just like Apple did, with the difference that they are doing it OpenSource.

[ninez]

There's no way gnome devs would accept patches that make it usable and this is probably one of the reasons why Canonical suffers from NIH syndrome (exactly like gnome).

Where in my comment that you have quoted, did i specifically talk about Gnome? (i did not). I was actually talking quite broadly, about FOSS projects, in general. ~ which means everything from the linux kernel to compilers, from toolkits to various applications. ie: not some argument specific to Gnome vs. Canonical (as you are doing right now). You blaming Gnome for how Canonical goes about their business is hilarious. the fact is Canonical has ALWAYS operated this way ~ this isn't some by-product of Gnome rejecting their patches - that is just beyond moronic, dude ... :\ regardless, i am not here to defend Gnome. (if that is what you were hoping for?)...

the only thing i will say about Gnome vs. Canonical - is that (generally speaking) Gnome's projects are much more essential than any code Canonical puts out. (Hell, Ubuntu/Unity is built on Gnome, for fcsk sake! ...and while i do use _some_ of the gnome stack, i'm not a Gnome-Shell user, nor a hardcore gnome fanboy.

anyway, you are delusional to think (and vocalize) such silly notions.

[zoomblab]

Hopefully Qt and GTK will also refuse to mainline the changes.
The sooner Mir dies, the less damage it will cause.

Hopefully Mir will become great success and all you will eat your words!

You don't get it, do you? Canonical's plan for Ubuntu is to achieve MacOS-like seamless integration. Stitching together components from right and left won't cut it. They need to to be at the steering wheel, at least for the components that interface with the user. That will allow them to build deeper emotional connection with their users and thous stronger brand. It has been proven that enstablished projects have their own agendas and will not bend to Ubuntu needs. Also forking and maintaining huge patch sets lead to dead end. Mir and Unity are necessary investments if Ubuntu is to become something more than just a Gnome distro.

[GreatEmerald]

Stitching together components from right and left won't cut it. They need to to be at the steering wheel, at least for the components that interface with the user.

Unfortunately, if they don't know how to drive it, they can crash the car very fast.

[Drago]

Hopefully Mir will become great success and all you will eat your words!

You are so naive. They (canonical), even didn't hired the right people, who know what they are doing, instead bunch of dickheads, who didn't studied the other alternatives first. I wish them spectacular fail!

[chenxiaolong]

Link to UDS session on Mir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=w6HnJ3mgT9g

[bridgman]

It has been proven that enstablished projects have their own agendas and will not bend to Ubuntu needs.

I think this is the assertion that is being questioned.

[Hamish Wilson]

I think this is the assertion that is being questioned.

Got it in one.