On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:25:29PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:16:11PM +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: >> >> User sessions then talk to this system-level Mir instance, >> >> including Mir itself. But to state this clearly, XMir will support the >> >> X session scenario on top of Mir. > > Will this not affect drivers and create issues in complex areas like > mesa? Will KWin really just be able to treat this as any other X > session? >
I can only rely on our experience with running Unity7 (the current version of Unity) on top of XMir, and that tells me that we haven't hit any major issue, yet. >> > What about when we move to Wayland? > >> if a Wayland backend for >> talking to Mir exists, I don't see a reason why that shouldn't work > > But there's no plans to create that? > I'm not aware of any plans to create this backend, no. However, people are free to create it if they see a need for it. > Would Ubuntu Desktop be happy running in a Mir backend on top of Wayland? I cannot speak for the whole of Ubuntu Desktop here, but the new Unity stack will run on top of Mir, both system and session level. HTH, Thomas > > Jonathan -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
