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Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model

Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model

Posted Mar 1, 2013 13:32 UTC (Fri) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model by ericc72
Parent article: Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model

> That said, I'm interested to see what sort of desktop innovation comes out of having a modern graphics "stack".

*Sigh* I wouldn't hold my breath: Wayland is a low level evolution which will simplify maintenance of the low level GUI stack for its developers, so for them it's a nice improvement but I see no reason why it would provide "desktop innovation".
To say it differently: say you use Qt to develop your desktop environment/applications, Qt/Wayland won't bring much "desktop innovation" over Qt/XCB.


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Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model

Posted Mar 1, 2013 20:56 UTC (Fri) by ericc72 (guest, #41737) [Link]

I hear what you are saying. I guess what I am thinking, or maybe hoping, is that the reality of a more modern graphics stack will "inspire" so new lower-level toolkit stuff or whatever. Maybe some really cool, simple, yet effective window managers, etc. in addition to desktop environment things. Basically, the fact that whatever gets created can now use a modern graphics stack with much better (graphic related) performance, might just inspire some stuff. Maybe even the same workflow stuff, but better (I don't mind the classic style desktop.) Just a more polished experience maybe.

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