<div dir="ltr">Scott,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:46 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thursday, June 27, 2013 08:41:51 AM Oliver Ries wrote:<br>
> Our Display Server Mir has gone from a proof of concept, sufficient to<br>
> justify its announcement in March this year, to high quality, high<br>
> performance component that we think will deliver the fastest, cleanest<br>
> display experience for the Ubuntu platform. We are confident that all<br>
> desktop environments and derivatives will work well throughout the<br>
> transition, based on our ability to provide a full X compatibility layer.<br>
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</div>I'm not sure where this confidence comes from.<br>
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<a href="http://blogs.kde.org/2013/06/26/kubuntu-wont-be-switching-mir-or-xmir" target="_blank">http://blogs.kde.org/2013/06/26/kubuntu-wont-be-switching-mir-or-xmir</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>you are mixing 2 different issues</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>a) the technical abilities of a DE to run on XMir in 13.10</div><div style>b) the decision of a flavor to adopt to it</div><div style><br></div><div style>I am clearly talking about a) but not the decision that was taken by kubuntu.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>To be clear, we are providing you a route to adopt Mir and commit to a 5y support window (on Ubuntu 14.04) without much ado. Whether or not this offer is taken cannot be influenced by me, other than by providing you a platform you want to be on. Apparently we aren't there yet, but my team and I are committed to keep having that dialog in the future.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>best,</div><div style>Olli</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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As this is landed in the archive, please take care not to make it unduly<br>
difficult for the rest of us.<br>
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Scott K<br>
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