non-Unity flavours and Mir

Dmitry Shachnev mitya57 at ubuntu.com
Tue Jun 18 15:08:35 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:38:09PM +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
>> I think it is much easier to maintain Wayland stack in Ubuntu than
>> port all DEs we support to Mir.
>
>> As I can see from this thread, the “common” components used by flavors
>> that will be patched to support Mir are Mesa, Upstart and LightDM.
>
> Not sure where this came from, but there are no patches to upstart needed to
> support Mir.

Thomas said that “In the final setup, Mir will come up early on in the
boot process and act as system-level compositor” — I thought that
would be managed by Upstart. But if that is wrong, things are even
better :)

--
Dmitry Shachnev



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