The Story of Ubuntu's Mir Abstraction Layer (MirAL)
More and more recently we have found ourselves talking about Mir's abstraction layer, MirAL. It turns out that this set of interfaces to Mir has advanced from being a hobby project by a Canonical developer to now being a formal project within the organization and more of Unity 8 is making use of MirAL's API/ABI.
Alan Griffiths has been developing MirAL over the past year as a way of providing a more stable API/ABI for window managers / shells supporting Mir as well as other helpers for developers targeting Mir. We've covered it many times like when it recently gained cut-and-paste support. Alan has written a blog post for the Canonical blog post about the story of MirAL.
If you are interested in MirAL -- or more broadly, Mir -- and the evolutions taking place, you can read the blog at insights.ubuntu.com. MirAL will be present in Ubuntu 17.04 and Unity 8 has begun making use of it.
Alan Griffiths has been developing MirAL over the past year as a way of providing a more stable API/ABI for window managers / shells supporting Mir as well as other helpers for developers targeting Mir. We've covered it many times like when it recently gained cut-and-paste support. Alan has written a blog post for the Canonical blog post about the story of MirAL.
If you are interested in MirAL -- or more broadly, Mir -- and the evolutions taking place, you can read the blog at insights.ubuntu.com. MirAL will be present in Ubuntu 17.04 and Unity 8 has begun making use of it.
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