Matthew Garrett has posted an assessment of where XMir
development stands. "This is an unfortunate situation to be
in. Ubuntu Desktop was told that they were switching to XMir, but Mir
development seems to be driven primarily by the needs of Ubuntu Phone. XMir
has to do things that no other Mir client will ever cope with, and unless
Mir development takes that into account it's inevitably going to suffer
breakage like this. Canonical management needs to resolve this if there's
any hope of ever shipping XMir as the default desktop environment."
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Garrett: The state of XMir
Posted Oct 6, 2013 7:11 UTC (Sun) by branden (subscriber, #7029)
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Didn't I see many comments to this post just a few days ago?
Garrett: The state of XMir
Posted Oct 6, 2013 8:03 UTC (Sun) by AlexHudson (subscriber, #41828)
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No; there was a previous 'state of XMir' from mjg59 that did get a large number of comments though, not that long ago.
I think pretty much all the arguments have been run at this point. Canonical are doing their own thing, Ubuntu users will be put on it in the future, no-one else is interested in using it so far.
So long as this doesn't seriously disrupt the video driver space (and people seem to be talking about EGL right now) there's probably no point getting bent out of shape about it now. It's basically business as usual for Canonical to be running on their own toolset.
Garrett: The state of XMir
Posted Oct 6, 2013 8:18 UTC (Sun) by seyman (subscriber, #1172)
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