Lubuntu, Mir, XMir, and X

[Julien Lavergne]

2013/6/29 PCMan <pcman.tw at gmail.com>:
>
> 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

Don't worry, I'm well aware of the consequences. However, it's still
something we will have to discuss in the long term, when many
distributions will migrate to Wayland and Mir (composite manager based
:-/). But it's too early IMO :-)

Regards,
Julien Lavergne