Update Known Issues on Mir installation page?

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 04/09/13 03:32, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> The distortion around the mouse cursor is known:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xmir/+bug/1218735
>
> And the general skipping/freezing I think is covered by:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xmir/+bug/1216472
>
> Both bugs have workarounds you can try.
>
> Those are significant bugs which confuse and mask each other. I don't think it
> would be useful to hypothesize about further display bugs until they're squashed
> and out of the equation.

Belated thanks for the info. :-)

Just as a "qualitative" report -- I don't want to speculate about particular 
bugs -- things got much better with Mir updates that arrived shortly after your 
last email.

The issue with video playback has become more subtle.  What seems to happen is 
that any video playback of any kind results in Compiz massively increasing its 
CPU usage, and that heightened CPU burden doesn't go away when the video has 
stopped -- it's less than when the video was playing, but not absent.

The effect is more strongly pronounced if e.g. the video is HTML5 video being 
played through a web browser, rather than a local file being played via mplayer 
-- but it's there in all cases.  System responsiveness as a whole decreases as a 
result.

I suspect this can also be interpreted in terms of existing bugs -- maybe even 
the ones you already pointed me to -- so don't worry about spending time 
responding to me or pointing me to bug reports.  I have strong trust in the Mir 
team to solve all the significant problems before release, this email is just an 
"FYI". :-)

But do let me know if this use of the mir-devel list is inappropriate -- I don't 
want to take up space and attention here if these kind of user experience 
reports can be better made elsewhere.

Thanks & best wishes,

     -- Joe