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    Phoronix: Mir 1.0 Now Aiming To Support Wayland Clients Directly

    Originally Mir 1.0 was expected early in the Ubuntu 17.10 development cycle, but with their dramatic shift away from Unity 8 and Mir, that's no longer happening but there are new plans for Mir 1.0...

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  • #2
    just make mir a wayland implementation. problem solved. Effort not totally in vain.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by cj.wijtmans View Post
      just make mir a wayland implementation. problem solved. Effort not totally in vain.
      That's exactly what this does, and we'll only have to wait a few moments to see that people will still continue to complain.

      Once this support lands, I might try my hand at writing a Mir-based compositor.

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      • #4
        /me goes to microwave a large bowl of popcorn

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        • #5
          Small correction: "No word if Mir 1.0 will still happen for the Ubuntu 17.10 cycle." => "Mir 1.0 is still intended for the Ubuntu 17.10 cycle".

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          • #6
            That was proposed so many times (make Unity into a Wayland compositor with Mir becoming some layer in between). I guess they finally realized it's a better option than complete rift with the rest of the Linux world. Of course it's rather late (Unity is gone now from their focus).

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            • #7
              Just watch the community fork and complete their vision by 18.04

              When you're a OSS company I guess rule #1 is don't piss off the community.

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              • #8
                I fail to see what exactly would Mir add by doing this that isn't already filled by the existing Wayland implementation

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by MartinN View Post
                  I fail to see what exactly would Mir add by doing this that isn't already filled by the existing Wayland implementation
                  I think the point is to keep Unity 8, otherwise you'd be correct. But it's probably easier to add Wayland support Mir than port Unity 8 away from Mir.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by MartinN View Post
                    the existing Wayland implementation
                    Wayland is not a display server, just a protocol. There is no "the existing Wayland implementation"

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