Tuesday 18 June 2013

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:38:09PM +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:28:49 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > I don't think there's anyone in the Kubuntu team with the skills to pick up on
> > maintenance of the non-Mir display server stack [...]

> I think it is much easier to maintain Wayland stack in Ubuntu than
> port all DEs we support to Mir.

> As I can see from this thread, the "common" components used by flavors
> that will be patched to support Mir are Mesa, Upstart and LightDM.

Not sure where this came from, but there are no patches to upstart needed to
support Mir.

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