<div dir="ltr">Hi Scott,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Scott Kitterman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu@kitterman.com" target="_blank">ubuntu@kitterman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thursday, June 27, 2013 09:51:33 AM Oliver Ries wrote:<br>
> > Like Kubuntu we expect to switch to Wayland in the next year or so.<br>
> > It's nice to see that the various desktop environment can run on XMir<br>
> > but I'm still not clear on whether there are any benefits to doing so.<br>
><br>
> One obvious benefit that comes to mind is getting the stack for free and<br>
> not having to worry about maintenance. I do acknowledge that there are<br>
> other costs associated to that (adopting to Mir), but in our opinion, that<br>
> should be less than maintaining a GFX stack on your own. Canonical will<br>
> support the Mir stack going forward and we are offering help for upstreams<br>
> willing to adopt.<br>
<br>
</div>Have any non-Canonical upstreams expressed an interest in this?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I think it's a bit premature to ask this question (there is validity for it, just the timing seems off) as things were only announced today and the technology is just becoming available for a technical assessment. Right now, only kubuntu has jumped the gun and made a decision against Mir, I hope others are taking the necessary time, will be looking at the resources that are and will be provided and make an informed decision based on that.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>best,</div><div style>Olli</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>