Unity 8 & Mir Are Moving Along For Ubuntu 15.04

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Unity 8 & Mir Are Moving Along For Ubuntu 15.04

Canonical's work on the next-generation Unity 8 interface for the Ubuntu desktop powered by the Mir display server is taking shape on the desktop and complementing their mobile work well...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg4MjQ

[MannerMan]

Is unity 8 still just the tablet interface in fullscreen? Have they made any desktop progress?

[Qwerry]

Have they made any desktop progress?

Yes.

There's a window manager (video demo here), support for X.org applications through XMir, and supposedly GTK+ support.

[MannerMan]

Yes.

There's a window manager (video demo here), support for X.org applications through XMir, and supposedly GTK+ support.

I tried it about a week ago. It has some apps in window mode, not resizable. What annoyed me however was cursor-window movement lag. If they want be better than X then it should work better.

Thanks for the replies! Unity 7 is getting a bit old, but it works very good nowdays. Really hope Unity 8 will be a worthy successor.

[magika]

It has some apps in window mode, not resizable. What annoyed me however was cursor-window movement lag.

works very good

Wayland killer is come.

[gutigen]

Wayland killer is come.

Meanwhile Gnome on Wayland is almost feature complete and 3.16 should make it 100% usuable as a desktop (except bugs and stuff to iron out ofc).

[xeekei]

It can't come fast enough! In the next years the separation of Ubuntu and the rest of linux will be complete. Then it might get a chance at mainstream.

Your trollbait reeks. I think it's a bit old.

[david_lynch]

Meanwhile Gnome on Wayland is almost feature complete and 3.16 should make it 100% usuable as a desktop (except bugs and stuff to iron out ofc).

I'll certainly be interested to see that. I just tried gnome on wayland on a fedora 21 netbook, and found it not yet quite usable. When I chose the gnome on wayland session in the login manager, it took an extremely long time for it to finally put up a desktop, and when the workspace finally appeared, it didn't seem as responsive as the xorg desktop. I opened a terminal, and the color scheme was apparently grey on grey, so I couldn't read anything. I opened the terminal preferences, but whatever options were there were also invisible.

But who knows, maybe it will "just work" in Fedora 22, eh?

[Charlie68]

I believe that the war between wayland-mir is stupid, why not see them as alternatives?
Perhaps to hear this interview with Will Cooke Desktop Team manager http://news.softpedia.com/news/Unity...s-467414.shtml
Sorry for my English.

[gutigen]

I'll certainly be interested to see that. I just tried gnome on wayland on a fedora 21 netbook, and found it not yet quite usable. When I chose the gnome on wayland session in the login manager, it took an extremely long time for it to finally put up a desktop, and when the workspace finally appeared, it didn't seem as responsive as the xorg desktop. I opened a terminal, and the color scheme was apparently grey on grey, so I couldn't read anything. I opened the terminal preferences, but whatever options were there were also invisible.

But who knows, maybe it will "just work" in Fedora 22, eh?

It just works on my Arch box with foss AMD drivers. Hey, even TF2 running on Xwayland gives me same framerate as under X... though mouse spins out of control, which is current major Gnome on Wayland issue - no mouse control at all and acceleration is crazy (will be fixed in 3.16). On the other hand desktop is butter smooth, like zero tearing, lags, framerate drops, 60fps smooth.

Anyway, like I've said, most features are there, all we need now are some major bug fixes.