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  • Canonical's Plans For Unity 8 & Mir In Ubuntu 15.04

    Phoronix: Canonical's Plans For Unity 8 & Mir In Ubuntu 15.04

    Kevin Gunn of Canonical laid out some of Canonical's plans for Unity 8 and Mir for the Ubuntu 15.04 development cycle...

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    Ubuntu 15.04 on the desktop will still use Unity 7 with Mir.
    You mean with X11.

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    • #3
      I beleive Mir could take over wayland, in the end Mir would be easier to implement since it is more than a protocol, it will be a working product, while, Gnome and KDE guys have got to implement the wayland protocol from scratch using weston as a reference....

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      • #4
        The decision to support both libinput (Wayland) and Android input style is the right one. It will ensure that a lot of development effort by engines and toolkits on mobile and desktop will be much easier to port to Unity.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by TheOne View Post
          I beleive Mir could take over wayland, in the end Mir would be easier to implement since it is more than a protocol, it will be a working product, while, Gnome and KDE guys have got to implement the wayland protocol from scratch using weston as a reference....
          I don't see that happening. Gnome, KDE and Enlightenment all have their Wayland compositor work nearly finished. The rest of the WM's could potentially use the new work done to make a libWeston, so that they don't have to write a complete compositor from scratch.

          Canonical's Mir for now is a Unity compositor thingie. While the developers have said that they might eventually declare the interfaces stable, they aren't right now. As such, Mir is not in a usable shape to be used by other WM/DE's.

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          • #6
            Great that Mir will re-use libinput instead of NIH and reinvent it.

            Though, I would prefer Wayland on Ubuntu instead of Mir.

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            • #7
              Could Mir support GTK 3.14?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by TheOne View Post
                I beleive Mir could take over wayland
                stop abusing drugs

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                • #9
                  So, Mir will just support what Wayland does. Next step, Ubuntu switches to Wayland and stops the annoying NIH diversions?

                  Originally posted by TheOne View Post
                  I beleive Mir could take over wayland
                  No way. Canoical simply can't keep up with Wayland global wise and they didn't even plan to position Mir as a universal tool. It's their own tool for their needs. Everyone else will use Wayland and contribute to it, not to Mir.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by pal666 View Post
                    stop abusing drugs
                    Well lets see how things go on when you have KDE and Gnome on same install with different Wayland implementations. I just want to see how well it will work with drivers (from one implementation to another, performance wise), and if applications from 1 desktop environment will work correctly on the compositor of another desktop environment, lets wait and see before calling anyone here crazy....

                    Anyway I find that each camp writing its own compositor is kind of a waste, Xorg may be a mess of code but at least you got a unified solution... And Mir is much closer to a modernized Xorg in terms of development model.

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