Native GTK apps in Mir

Daniel van Vugt daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com
Wed Aug 6 02:43:31 UTC 2014


And it's been promoted now! If you're running utopic then your GTK apps 
can render directly to a Mir server (with the right environment variables).

Still, please consider this a tech preview. There are significant bugs 
that need fixing yet.


On 04/08/14 10:17, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> Following on from the proof of concept in May, native Mir support for
> GTK apps has landed in utopic-proposed (3.12.2-0ubuntu6):
>
>    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0
>
> Basic stuff works but more work is required, if anyone wants to help out
> with the immediate major stuff:
>
> 1. Cursor API not implemented (several GTK apps think this as a reason
> to crash).
>
> 2. Menus and dialogs not displayed correctly.
>
> - Daniel
>
>



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