Wayland or mir is just one thing of the journey to making a good distro.
How about getting a less buggy version into libreoffice to the LTS release.
I had Ubuntu 14.04's libreoffice calc spit out the wrong numbers.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostThing is X11 is low level, and people should not code application software against libx11.
People should code against GTK or Qt, and then the toolkit abstract away the underlying window system or display server.
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Originally posted by Pajn View PostValve haven't said anything about what display server they will use in the future.
Today they use X and tomorrow they may use any of Mir, Wayland and X.
The only one we may guess and be pretty sure of is X.
People should code against GTK or Qt, and then the toolkit abstract away the underlying window system or display server.
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Originally posted by Rich Oliver View PostSo as I understand it, if one say wrote an application to run on the future versions of the Steam box, it wouldn't work on Ubuntu, but it would work on future KDE and Gnome Systems.
Today they use X and tomorrow they may use any of Mir, Wayland and X.
The only one we may guess and be pretty sure of is X.
Originally posted by uid313 View PostI don't know if GTK, Qt or Clutter have Mir support, but if they don't, you should still be able to run your X11 applications there, assuming the user runs XMir.
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Originally posted by Rich Oliver View PostSo as I understand it, if one say wrote an application to run on the future versions of the Steam box, it wouldn't work on Ubuntu, but it would work on future KDE and Gnome Systems.
GTK 3, Qt 5 and Clutter all support both X11 and Wayland.
If you use X11-specific calls in your application, then it wont work natively on Wayland, but can still work if the user runs XWayland, which is a rootless X11 server inside Wayland.
I don't know if GTK, Qt or Clutter have Mir support, but if they don't, you should still be able to run your X11 applications there, assuming the user runs XMir.
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Originally posted by DebianLinuxero View PostWill Canonical drop Mir for Wayland as they did with upstart for systemd?
I think they would.
They would at the time the desktop environments supporting Wayland popularize it.
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Will Canonical drop Mir for Wayland as they did with upstart for systemd?
I think they would.
They would at the time the desktop environments supporting Wayland popularize it.
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So as I understand it, if one say wrote an application to run on the future versions of the Steam box, it wouldn't work on Ubuntu, but it would work on future KDE and Gnome Systems.
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