hi, On Di, 2013-06-18 at 06:08 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 09:00:26 AM Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > > On 18 June 2013 07:33, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > - What's the time line? When , if we follow along with Ubuntu, would we > > > > > > expect to run with XMir instead of X and when would we expect to integrate > > > with MIR natively? > > > > Based solely on comments from this thread, as far as I understand, both > > Ubuntu and KDE will maintain the ability to work with X for the foreseeable > > timeframe, so this more of a question on which happens first - Ubuntu > > stopping support for X based desktop environments (unlikely to be very > > soon, given the popularity of XFCE and friends) or KWin dropping X support > > in favour of Wayland-only solution (also unlikely to be quite soon given > > how many distros are not shipping Wayland by default yet). > > > > There might theoretically be new features that work on Mir (or Wayland), > > but not on X, but those are likely to be minor and more related to boot > > and/or user switching rather than actual work. > > We covered this already. That's true, but it's also rather more likely that > at some point the X stack will atrophy to the point that it will be buggy and > not so reliable (I know that the several engineers Canonical have had working > on X related issues are doing actual stuff, so it's safe to assume that if > they > are focused elsewhere, it will have an actual effect) and so eventually, the > fact that X still exists in Ubuntu is unlikely to be a sufficient condition. > > As I've said before, I have no idea how long eventually is.
pretty sure as long as there are X apps being shipped in Ubuntu you will
see full support for XMir (i would assume "eventually" is several years
from now) ...
ciao
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