XFCE and Mir display server...

[Dave Morley]

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On 13/03/13 11:52, AG Restringere wrote:
> Dear Xubuntu devs,
> 
> You are all aware of the controversy surrounding Canonical's
> decision to go with Mir instead of Wayland.  I'm a dedicated XFCE
> user and I've heard some ugly rumors that XFCE will not support Mir
> and I'm concerned about the future of Xubuntu. How will I run
> Xubuntu when Mir/Unity-Next are launched?
> 
> Will the upstream XFCE guys throw in support for Mir?
> 
> Are you already working with them to ensure support?
> 
> What's going to happen?
> 
> Best regards, AG
> 
> 
x.org isn't going away so xubuntu can trigger that to be installed and
keep working as normal.

There is no reason why XFCE shouldn't run on mir anyway. Plus it looks
like the xserver stack will be changing one way or another any time
soon anyway, as gnome and kde both work on support for wayland.

Hope that answers the question.

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