On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> 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.On 14 June 2013 12:48, Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> wrote:I expect GNOME (meaning GNOME Shell on top of GDM) to switch to
> is kwin upstream planning to drop X support as well ? seems running
> kubuntu with kwin on top of XMir is no problem (unless i read other
> mails in this thread wrong)
Wayland by default in the next year or so. Once that's working well I
would not be surprised if they would remove support for running that
stack with X as system compositor. You would need to ask the GNOME
developers if you wanted more details or confirmation of my
assumptions.
Jono
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