Originally posted by Rexilion
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And Gnome (mutter), KDE (kwin) and all the other wayland compositors implement the Wayland protocol as well. That way, every application that "speaks" the wayland protocol can be used in Gnome, KDE etc.
The notable exception is Mir, it does not implement the wayland protocol right now. They use a different interface to communicate between applications and the Mir compositor. So every application must be adapted to "speak" Mir. The good thing is that patching Qt and Gtk takes care of most applications, and for the other apps there is XMir. The only issue will be native Wayland-only (non-X11) applications which do not use a common toolkit like Qt. I *hope* Canonical will implement the Wayland protocol in Mir eventually..
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