Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops

In addition to Canonical continuing to invest in developing Mir as a platform now built atop Wayland, over the past year Canonical developers have been quietly working on Miriway as a Mir-based Wayland compositor and it's becoming iteratively more useful...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Mir-Miriway-2023

[pracedru]

This is interesting.
Canonical has made a MIR/Wayland compositor for the DE's that are either looking for or making one?

[Danny3]

LOL!
I wonder how much money Canonical has that it keeps investing resources into paths no one takes or needs!
Good that they at least support more or less Gnome and KDE organizations that make stuff for more users.

[M@GOid]

Words: Ubuntu, Mir, Wayland.

[timofonic]

Canonical makes most solutions nobody wants. If it's a good project, it gets forked and adopted by other organization (or a new specific one).

Their best prolific developers abandon Canonical over time. In a good deal, that's why they dont bash Canonical.

They get a money influx from Microsoft with their partner program and probably other "ximiesque" perverted relations, as it's usual with companies subordinated by the big M.

[DanL]

I wonder how much money Canonical has that it keeps investing resources into paths no one takes or needs!

I wonder why you think that your use case and preferences apply to everyone!!!!!!111

[mirmirmir]

Looks like xfce's wayland situation is solved

[Luke]

This as the basic compostor for a MATE-wayland session and wayfire as the fancy compositor could make a nice pair. Note that unlike the marco/compiz situation this would be two different sessions. A read headache so far has been the decoration situation: If wayfire is set to use SSD decorations, all windows move and resize normally, but theming support is quite limited, rather like compiz built without the "use marco" option for theming.

On the other hand wayfire can draw the decorations similarly to an X11 MATE session if the theme attempts to copy the SSD decoration theme as a CSD theme as well. That looks good except for the decoration in the terminal overlapping the first line. The big CSD issue though is with caja: when caja (never intended to run with CSD) is run with the compositor set for CSD, the window cannot be dragged or resized by the borders. Super/mouse left button and Super/right mouse button or whatever bindings you set can still move and resize the window. Nemo does not have this problem, nor does any of the other MATE applications but I have so far never been able to find out why.

If Miriway solves this problem it could become an excellent default compositor for MATE, with wayfire also supported but flagged experimental.
Also Ubuntu-MATE could get on board with this, as it comes from Ubuntu and this would be a real help

[Rovano]

This is interesting.
Canonical has made a MIR/Wayland compositor for the DE's that are either looking for or making one?

Rather, I would assume that it is for IoT things. Maybe to Automotive. He has to live from something and there is money. But as a sidebar, it could also serve someone else. Probably more of a presentation of functionality.
Anyway, it's a classic approach in the OSS. More options.

[Volta]

LOL!
I wonder how much money Canonical has that it keeps investing resources into paths no one takes or needs!
Good that they at least support more or less Gnome and KDE organizations that make stuff for more users.

Can't wait for snaps in flatpaks.