On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 09:00:26 AM Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > On 18 June 2013 07:33, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> 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. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
