On Monday, March 04, 2013 05:46:54 PM Oliver Ries wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to give you a quick heads up regarding Unity in preparation of > this weeks UDS. > > The traction that Ubuntu Touch is creating is great and the team is > happy with where this is leading us. However, in order to implement the > vision of converged devices, some changes to our Display Stack are > necessary. > > After thorough research, looking at existing options and weighing in > costs & benefits we have decided to roll our own Display Server, Mir > (rf. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec). > > None of the existing solutions would allow us to implement our vision > without taking major compromises which would come at the cost of user > experience and quality. We will be running sessions at UDS to discuss > questions and take feedback. > > Also, driven by Ubuntu Touch we are starting to move Unity over to a > Qt/QML based implementation, embracing Qt as a community backed > technology for our offerings. We are looking at tackling the transition > from the Nux based implementation to a Qt/QML based implementation > component by component and are striving to do that in a transparent way > for the user. This topic is also up for discussion at UDS and we are > providing a spec at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityNextSpec. > > I am providing more context about these topics at > http://www.olli-ries.com/mir-unity-qml-unity-apis-unity . > > Please feel free to reach out to us during UDS and later on to discuss > any questions.
Does that mean that after next April, the X stack and Wayland will no longer be maintained by Canonical, so that flavors that are using a standard display stack are on their own? Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
