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Originally posted by Pajn View PostIF (that is still a pretty big if though) Canonical does have paying customers for Mir and will continue to maintain it, Mir do have better backing as most red hat sponsoring goes into Mutter and not Libweston.
If some corporation wants to add a graphical display to their microwave (in Soviet Russia, YOU watch microwave!), they're going to want someone to sue when something goes wrong. Who offers indemnity for Weston? Not Red Hat or Intel, they're very careful to keep at arm's length. For Mutter? Not Red Hat, they take great pains to be at arm's length. For KWin? I don't even know. But it's my bet Canonical offers indemnity for Mir.
Ultimately, all the competing compositing display managers are technically equals. Technical counts for nothing as soon as the lawyers and actuaries get involved.
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Originally posted by bregma View Post
This brings up one very important argument in favour of Mir over the plethora of competing composting display servers being offered as choices: indemnity.
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Ultimately, all the competing compositing display managers are technically equals. Technical counts for nothing as soon as the lawyers and actuaries get involved.
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Originally posted by littleowl View PostThe same can be said about Mir.
I presume this is for the IOT stuff, but I don't know. However Canonical have for pretty long focused on support for many kinds of environments.
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The best option is to throw Mir under the bus.... and extend libweston untill it does all you need and either use libweston-desktop or implement your own compositor as a thin layer on top of libweston.
Then everyone benefits... that is the entire point. Deleting cruft is a good thing... and at this junction Mir is pure cruft.
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Originally posted by Pajn View PostNo, Mir is designed to support multiple DEs. Even MirAL does support multiple kinds of environments, for example tiling which Unity does not use.
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Originally posted by Marc Driftmeyer View PostFor the life of me I am at a loss to figure out how much effort could be wasted in display server development and protocols when Quartz/Quartz Extreme [Display PDF, etc] developed for as Display Postscript at NeXT [alum here] and later at Apple [alum here], but then I look back to the original development of X versus NeXT Display Postscript and NeXT WindowServer both proven to be light years ahead of MIT-X and can't imagine after nearly 33 years it has taken this long to realize your designs were failures.
But Display PostScript (and Sun’s NEWS) was part of that mistake, too.
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Originally posted by Steffo View Post
They never wrote a patch for KWIN. The maintainer (Martin Grässlin) wrote only, that he wouldn't accept patches for Mir.
I must've read about it during one of the times when I was sleep-deprived out of my mind. That always makes a wreck out of my reading comprehension and memory.
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