Xubuntu on XMir discussion

[PK]

I agree with Shuhao.

Of course the Ubuntu developers would like as many XMir testers as
possible, but I would hate to see the Xubuntu dev team become overburdened
by fundamental experimental technology like this.

In my opinion, Xubuntu should focus on well-tested, proven technology,
sometimes slightly at the expense of fundamental innovations. We can wait
until those innovations are matured....

Regards, Pjotr.


2013/8/6 Brandon Watkins <bwat47 at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Shuhao Wu <shuhao at shuhaowu.com> wrote:
>
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm sure we've all heard about the potential move to XMir for Xubuntu.
>> I don't see a discussion thread anywhere so I thought I'd start one so
>> we can all offer our opinions.
>>
>> As a daily Xubuntu user, I would be against putting XMir as the
>> default on Xubuntu 13.10. In fact, I don't think that this should be
>> done until at least 14.10. For one, there are still a lot of open
>> issues surrounding XMir (multi monitor support being a big one) and it
>> is much less mature. Setting that to the default probably will cause a
>> lot more issues than we expect on the field. Stability is a very
>> important issue for many users such as myself.
>>
>> Furthermore, we would be taking a big performance penalty if we
>> included XMir as the default for 13.10 (probably will improve in the
>> near future but there will still be another layer):
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQyOTY
>>
>> I would be totally okay with putting this in a package somewhere
>> (xubuntu-desktop-xmir?) so users can opt to install it themselves to
>> test and so forth.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Shuhao
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> An optional package and/or session sounds like a nice idea to me.
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