Just laughing at the posts in this thread
There is a lot of drama in this thread about KDE, Kwin, etc that make me laugh. It's incredible how people don't pay attention to the details.
1. Like someone said, KDE will not even consider a Mir port until support land on QT, the toolkit used by KDE, right?
2. Digia hasn't expressed an interest (at least for the moment) on supporting Mir, right?
But hey, the new released Ubuntu SDK is based on QT, plus the fact that they mention they will make future versions of its Apps and Desktop using QML (QT for non techie folks), that means at some point Canonical will provide the QT port for Mir. And if Mir ever get a mainstream exposure, no matter if caused by others deciding on using it, or big mayor sales of units with Ubuntu (mobile, tv, etc), then very likely Digia will look at those patches and make them official.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/c...-wayland-not-x
http://www.olli-ries.com/mir-unity-q...ty-apis-unity/
http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/
That means for KDE users is that a Mir implementation will depend only on the success or failure of Mir itself, because QT 5.x support will be there, at least on an unofficial form. But GTK pals need to worry.
There is a lot of drama in this thread about KDE, Kwin, etc that make me laugh. It's incredible how people don't pay attention to the details.
1. Like someone said, KDE will not even consider a Mir port until support land on QT, the toolkit used by KDE, right?
2. Digia hasn't expressed an interest (at least for the moment) on supporting Mir, right?
But hey, the new released Ubuntu SDK is based on QT, plus the fact that they mention they will make future versions of its Apps and Desktop using QML (QT for non techie folks), that means at some point Canonical will provide the QT port for Mir. And if Mir ever get a mainstream exposure, no matter if caused by others deciding on using it, or big mayor sales of units with Ubuntu (mobile, tv, etc), then very likely Digia will look at those patches and make them official.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/c...-wayland-not-x
http://www.olli-ries.com/mir-unity-q...ty-apis-unity/
http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/
That means for KDE users is that a Mir implementation will depend only on the success or failure of Mir itself, because QT 5.x support will be there, at least on an unofficial form. But GTK pals need to worry.
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