Mir 2.0 Released In Dropping Legacy Bits, New Platform Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mir 2.0 Released In Dropping Legacy Bits, New Platform Improvements

Approaching two years already since the release of Mir 1.0 following its shift to Wayland support, Mir 2.0 is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-2.0-Released

[TheOne]

So now we have wlroots and mir, which one will be easier to pickup by projects like xfce and mate...

[AlanGriffiths]

The release notes are here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-2-0-0-release/17510/

[Steffo]

So now we have wlroots and mir, which one will be easier to pickup by projects like xfce and mate...

Mate wants to pickup Mir.

[bregma]

The release notes are here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-2-0-0-release/17510/

Keep up the interesting work.

[IliaB]

Mate wants to pickup Mir.

Source? Mir developers have been porting mate-panel to wayland using the wlr-layer-shell protocol. It works on both Mir and wlroots-based compositors.
AFAIK the MATE developers themselves have done almost nothing for porting MATE to wayland.

[Steffo]

Source? Mir developers have been porting mate-panel to wayland using the wlr-layer-shell protocol. It works on both Mir and wlroots-based compositors.
AFAIK the MATE developers themselves have done almost nothing for porting MATE to wayland.

Maybe they changed their idea.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MATE-Usable-Wayland-Mir-Video