non-Unity flavours and Mir

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 18 June 2013 02:00, Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius at gmail.com> wrote:
> Based solely on comments from this thread, as far as I understand, both
> Ubuntu and KDE will maintain the ability to work with X for the foreseeable
> timeframe, so this more of a question on which happens first - Ubuntu
> stopping support for X based desktop environments (unlikely to be very soon,
> given the popularity of XFCE and friends) or KWin dropping X support in
> favour of Wayland-only solution (also unlikely to be quite soon given how
> many distros are not shipping Wayland by default yet).
>
> There might theoretically be new features that work on Mir (or Wayland), but
> not on X, but those are likely to be minor and more related to boot and/or
> user switching rather than actual work.

I think you're mixing up two different concepts: support for running X
apps and support for running X as the system display server. As I
mentioned before, my guess is that GNOME will only work with Wayland
as system display server within a year or two. Similarly, I expect
Unity to only work with Mir as the system display server for either
14.04 LTS or 14.10. Developers are not switching to Mir or Wayland for
theoretical minor features, but to finally move past long-standing
issues with the X stack that impact users.

Obviously everyone will still support running legacy X apps for at
least the next few years.

Jeremy