On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Manish Sinha <manishsi...@ubuntu.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> > wrote: > > At the current rate, 14.04 may be the last version of Ubuntu under which > you can run Gtk+ apps unless the community wants to build Mir support for > Gtk+. > > I don't think I understand this properly. You mean to say that after > 14.04 Ubuntu cannot run GTK+ apps as they will go pure Mir and Mir > won't have GTK+ support? > Is this true? What about all the apps written in GTK+? What will they > be replaced with? > I checked into this with the Mir team and the 14.04 plan is to run non-Qt apps that don't have a Mir backend as rootless X apps, so all GTK apps will continue to work. Currently Canonical is investing in building a Qt backend and providing help and guidance for those who want to build Mir backends for other toolkits. In fact, there is an active discussion underway on mir-devel as we speak about a GTK Mir backend ( https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/mir-devel/2013-July/000275.html). So in a nutshell, there will be no regressions at all with regards to GTK apps in 14.04. -- Jono Bacon Ubuntu Community Manager www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org www.identi.ca/jonobacon www.twitter.com/jonobacon
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