On Tue, March 5, 2013 7:42 pm, [email protected] wrote: > The whole Mir mess might become another factor. I assume it will be a > long > time before any media application gets ported to Mir, Wayland, or anything > other than X. The fragmentation mess is being brought up elsewhere, with > fears that applications written for Mir will run only on Ubuntu, etc. > > This could be a real mess for all distros based on Ubuntu, even though > both Mir and Wayland retain X compatability layers. X is heavy enough > by itself, running X applications through something like this will slow > down > marginal or fully-loaded machines. > > I also expect that older DE's and things like XFCE, Cinnamon, etc will > be ported to another display server either late or never. > > For those of us not interested in joining the "Tablet/Touch Revolution" > it will be crucial that X stays in repo until all DE's have been ported > over, > or permanently.
Lets see, cdrecord (replaced by broken wodem), ffmpeg (replaced by avlib), init.d (replaced by upstart or systemd), x.... I guess the next thing is a unique, non-linux kernel... I am sure the list is bigger. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
