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Aloha folks, in case some of you haven't seen this. <br>
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Laura<br>
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<td>XMir update for Ubuntu 13.10</td>
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<td>Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:21:33 -0600</td>
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<td>Oliver Ries <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:oliver.ries@canonical.com"><oliver.ries@canonical.com></a></td>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone,<br>
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As many of you will know, the Mir team had two core goals for
the Ubuntu 13.10 cycle:<br>
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1. Deliver Mir + XMir + Unity 7 on the desktop for those cards
that supported it, and fall back to X for those that don’t.<br>
2. Deliver a native Mir + Unity 8 running on Ubuntu Touch images
and devices.<br>
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Unfortunately, due to some outstanding technical difficulties,
we can only achieve the latter of these two goals.<br>
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While we are on track to successfully deliver Mir for Ubuntu on
smartphones, we are unfortunately not going to be able to
deliver Mir + XMir + Unity 7 as the default experience on the
desktop.<br>
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Mir has made tremendous progress and is currently available on
the Ubuntu archive for use, but there are still some outstanding
quality issues that we want to resolve before we feel
comfortable turning it on by default. Many of these issues live
in the XMir part of the stack, which provides the integration
between the X server and the underlying Mir system compositor.
More specifically, the multi-monitor support in XMir is working,
but not to the extend we'd like to see it for all of our users.
The core of Mir is working reliable, but with XMir being a key
component for our 13.10 goals, we didn’t want to compromise
overall Ubuntu quality by shipping it.
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Mir & XMir are available from the archive as an optional
configuration, but XMir won't be part of the default
configuration.<br>
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I know many of you have been curious about the progress of
discussions with GPU manufacturers about Mir support, and
while those conversations are under NDA, I can assure you they
are progressing forward.<br>
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We have compiled a Q&A which can be found at <a
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href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A</a><br>
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If you have any further queries, please feel free to reach out
to me or my team, and feel free to discuss this in more detail
either here or on mir-devel (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/mir-devel/">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/mir-devel/</a>).</div>
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<div>best,<br>
Olli<br>
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