On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Shuhao Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSAUlrAAoJEM5AhTD1WsPQU2gP/0orWSESz/145ZJ9StIy60no > uGQ5fQTy1xTzC4ON/tJUnniXSXnecgtbxe70B+lW+rUJ8cXar+2nOtzkf0fPMCTC > Q/w7OSDo1Nu5KbAclXsyLrf26Pob44B9Tv3f8bPmNYF8MVyQgJdzkHRI18gfZJTs > hYPZxqO2mOVIXBeuwlViD/2GORuR8n8Uj8BefivV4AQql4VUCOq6j75DF2/DMko6 > mkryU82tupHOpHzr/e+akBXbLctFdugaDkftVDkW4YPHyhI2oYMb9F4DwetEP/mj > sKW8qiZ4ABGFOiZsAyAwoien9/R003UfjRqH+x8/qaKtr9+kbOUKqF8c24oyNfJg > 4k4zBYrRnFj8nGaH/SwLXkDFD3mR0EfKRfEzdP2lqEExtHWpV/DiJF8CIX9VRpbC > 6Cc1EY50E5qpyWXBBBSI602uswrDd9VEjzVaFPcJ0ccBCIvldBVrhtZLJgvVcHxx > NlZBsIBld03RbS8xneRd96/xCyVqO+ipBdKpP18ZNBAYE1dWP7MDpIJntvr+ch7X > TebapJ7uY7z0VKB1KBFALP6VGf0iZqnif8CqAVToIzVRm0XOQLJYtder1MaMxDAu > ire91+CUDdOnNSZyHzCZOq9hug4nCF9t75dkV15aKSU+EHqr8K2C9QwJZz9eBerv > pyqQ0Kbep4wsF2p7viiD > =S88Y > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > An optional package and/or session sounds like a nice idea to me.
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