Lubuntu, Mir, XMir, and X

[PCMan]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just to avoid confusion, this is the answer I made about all the Mir /
>> XMir switch talk :
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-June/037419.html
>>
>> Short answer, we are sticking with X for 13.10 by default, and
>> certainly also for 14.04.
>>
>> Let me know if you need more details.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julien Lavergne
>>
>>
>
> Hi Julien,
>
> Thank you so much for this update, much appreciated. Sorry but my last
> email, I send it at the same time you send yours or at least when my inbox
> has received your email.
>
> I will post your email on our communications channels right away so that
> everyone will be aware of this.

There is no point in replacing things that "works well for decades"
with something having uncertain future.
What additional benefit will MIR bring to Lubuntu?
If the answer is obviously none, why should we use it or worry about it?
Please keep X as it is.
A working desktop environment requires much more than just a display server.
All of the existing xdg specs and protocols are still based on X and I
see no MIR equivalence at the moment.
Just to name a few, Xdnd, XDirectSave, Xsettings, EWMH/NETWM, ... and more.
Please don't break working solutions just because Canonical wants to break them.
Thanks