non-Unity flavours and Mir

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Fri Jun 14 15:35:05 UTC 2013


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:25:29PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:16:11PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote:
> >> User sessions then talk to this system-level Mir instance,
> >> including Mir itself. But to state this clearly, XMir will support the
> >> X session scenario on top of Mir.

Will this not affect drivers and create issues in complex areas like
mesa?  Will KWin really just be able to treat this as any other X
session?

> > What about when we move to Wayland?  

> if a Wayland backend for
> talking to Mir exists, I don't see a reason why that shouldn't work

But there's no plans to create that?

Would Ubuntu Desktop be happy running in a Mir backend on top of Wayland?

Jonathan



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