Re: Fwd: Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:04:56PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> Noticed some Mir thread @ ubuntu-devel.
>
> Corrected some misinformation about GNOME OS. Also made it clear that
> GNOME will go Wayland, don't rely on our X support.

And now also the other message

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Regards,
Olav

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• From: Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>
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• Subject: Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir
• Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:56:03 +0200

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 02:51:29PM -0700, Jono Bacon wrote:

I suspect X support for GNOME will be around for a while primarily so Red
Hat can continue to serve their customers. We should definitely ensure the
GNOME community are invited to the Mir discussions moving forward, as are
the KDE/Kubuntu community.

Primary focus for GNOME will be Wayland. There are a few things that
Wayland does not support that X did support. This will result in having
to do things differently. See e.g. the various forms of 'deprecate' is
mentioned on https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/GTK%2B as well as
https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/Gaps.

Various things will be changed. Eventually GDM will use Wayland, but
then still allow X sessions to be started. In short term, GDM won't use
Wayland but allows Wayland sessions. See
https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/gdm.

Due to primary focus on Wayland, the X support in GNOME shell will
probably not be at the same level as Wayland (see links above for
background reasoning). Secondly, GDM should always allow to start X
sessions (start X based desktop environments).

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Regards,
Olav

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