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A bit lopsided

A bit lopsided

Posted Mar 5, 2013 15:10 UTC (Tue) by tetley80 (guest, #88691)
In reply to: A bit lopsided by deepfire
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

    why didn't Wayland people adopt SurfaceFlinger?

That's a good point. To be honest, I'm not that familiar with SurfaceFlinger. To (partly) answer your question: two wrongs don't make a right. Perhaps Canonical/Ubuntu should adopt and extend SurfaceFlinger instead of rolling their own display server?

On a related note, I'm starting to think that the most effective method to make Linux more relevant in the desktop space (and at the same time get a relatively sane OS stack: kernel, graphics, sound, input, UI) is to make Android self-hosting.


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